title: [Accidental severance of a venous catheter: diagnostic and therapeutic approach].
abstract: The most common invasive procedure performed in hospitals is the insertion of a vascular access device. This procedure has the rare complication of catheter emboli. Accidental cutting of a peripheral catheter, the use of duplex ultrasound to locate the cut and the extraction of the catheter through a venesection is described. If peripheral extraction fails, percutaneous extraction or thoracotomy should be tried, in that order. The immediate precautions have an impact on the final results.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Dept., Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheba.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gilutz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gavriel
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yurfest
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002406:Catheterization, Peripheral; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018616:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Duplex