title: A technique for placement of left atrial monitoring line.
abstract: A technique for placement of a left atrial monitoring line is described. Following repair of a complex congenital heart defect, a long catheter previously advanced from the common femoral vein or the saphenous vein into the right atrium is inserted across the interatrial septum through the parent foramen ovale or through a small incision in the atrial septum at the level of the fossa ovalis. A suture is placed to close the interatrial septum around the catheter. This technique has been used successfully for four years.
mesh_terms: D016275:Atrial Function; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods*; D011312:Pressure