title: Spurious central venous pressure.
abstract: A patient is described in whom two different sites of cannulation of central veins produced markedly different pressures with potentially dangerous consequences. Falsely elevated pressures recorded from a catheter inserted via the subclavian vein were related to the patency in the arm of an arteriovenous shunt. The likely cause of this phenomenon is discussed.
mesh_terms: D001166:Arteriovenous Shunt, Surgical; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination; D002496:Central Venous Pressure; D006801:Humans; D007601:Jugular Veins; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013350:Subclavian Vein