Making sense of central venous catheters.
Central venous catheters are now seen regularly in hospital and community settings as well as specialist and critical care areas. This paper complements a previous one on the measurement of central venous pressure which appeared in Nursing Times on September 18 (p.38) and outlines management issues related to central venous catheters.
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D002405:Catheterization, Central Venous / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing; D006801:Humans