Journal article
Insertion of Femoral-Vein Catheters for Practice during Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
The New England journal of medicine, Vol.342(18), pp.1368-1370
05/04/2000
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200005043421812
PMID: 10798942
Abstract
To the Editor:
Kaldjian et al. (Dec. 30 issue)
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raise a much more important question than whether residents in internal medicine should “practice” the insertion of central venous catheters without consent. Consider the training of emergency-medicine physicians in the performance of cricothyrotomy. This rarely performed, moderately difficult surgical procedure is truly lifesaving, but only if accomplished within seconds of the failure of other attempts to establish an airway.
Although there is evidence that the families of more than one third of patients who have recently died in the emergency department will consent to the performance of this procedure for practice, . . .
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Insertion of Femoral-Vein Catheters for Practice during Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
- Creators
- Stephen J Playe - Baystate Medical CenterMichael Heller - St. Luke's Hospital, Bethlehem, PA 18015Jeffrey P Burns - Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115Robert D Truog - Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115Henry S Perkins - The University of Texas Health Science Center at San AntonioLauris C Kaldjian - Yale UniversityEric P Kaldjian - Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research, Ann Arbor, MI 48105Thomas P Duffy - Yale University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The New England journal of medicine, Vol.342(18), pp.1368-1370
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- DOI
- 10.1056/NEJM200005043421812
- PMID
- 10798942
- ISSN
- 0028-4793
- eISSN
- 1533-4406
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/04/2000
- Academic Unit
- General Internal Medicine; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984359774802771
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