title: [The placing and the correcting of the position of central venous catheters with Seldinger's technique (author's transl)].
abstract: The Seldinger technique for placing and correcting the position of central venous catheters with a J-shaped guide wire has proved to be a valuable improvement on the technique available at present. The technique allows us to negotiate otherwise impassable "blocks" in the venous system and to correct problematic malpositioned catheters. The success rate in 135 cases of malpositioning was 81.5%. If in addition one had the help of X-ray scan, the catheters could be corrected in nearly every case. The Seldinger technique is particularly valuable in cases of tumours of the neck and upper mediastinum, in anticoagulant and thrombolytic therapy, in burns and for small children. No complications occurred.
mesh_terms: D002404:Catheterization / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D014680:Veins
vernacular_title: Plazierung und Lagekorrektur von zentralen Venenkathetern mit der Seldinger-Spirale.