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Identical wave forms of vena cava and pulmonary artery during pulmonary artery catheter insertion due to kinking: a case report of a rare complication

BACKGROUND: We experienced a rare malposition of a pulmonary artery catheter due to kinking in a 63-year-old male who was scheduled for an off-pump coronary artery by-pass graft. FINDINGS: Given the difficulty to obtain stable pulmonary artery waveform, we discovered that the two waveforms of the di...

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Autores principales: Oshima, Masayuki, Onishi, Tatsuki, Iwata, Hitomi, Aoyama, Kazuyoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4991978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27606155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-3050-3