Successful internal jugular venipuncture in an infant with a high risk of puncturing the vertebral artery

A five-month-old baby girl, 61.8 cm in height and weighing 4.9 kg, underwent ventricular septal defect repair under general anesthesia. Authors checked for small vessels around the IJV using an ultrasound echo apparatus with a 5/10-MHz probe (TiTAN, SonoSite Co., Tokyo, Japan) at a point 28 mm from...

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Published in:	Masui. The Japanese journal of anesthesiology Vol. 62; no. 3; p. 344
Main Authors:	Kayashima, Kenji, Imai, Keiko
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	Japanese
Published:	Japan 01-03-2013
Subjects:	Female Humans Iatrogenic Disease - prevention & control Infant Jugular Veins - diagnostic imaging Phlebotomy - methods Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color Vertebral Artery - injuries
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