Haemothorax after subclavian vein cannulation.
Open Access
- 1 February 1977
- Vol. 32 (1) , 101-103
- https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.32.1.101
Abstract
A patient in whom pulmonary arterial bleeding occurred during percutaneous supraclavicular puncture of the subclavian vein is described. A retrospective survey of over 600 subclavian venepunctures disclosed seven patients in whom serious traumatic complications occurred, six of them in the hands of inexperienced operators.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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