Abstract
WITHIN the space of one week 6 cases of an avoidable "disease of medical progress" have been encountered. The advantages of determining the central as opposed to the peripheral venous pressure have been adequately stressed in the recent medical literature.1 Although many methods of determining the central venous pressure are feasible the one utilized by most of the house officers at this institution is that of percutaneous puncture of the subclavian vein, with introduction of a large-bore (No. 14 or 17) Bardic Intracath into the superior vena cava.Case ReportsCase 1. A patient who had had a resection of . . .

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