title: A potentially hazardous complication during central venous catheterization: lost guidewire retained in the patient.
abstract: Guidewires are routinely used in the Seldinger technique during central venous catheter placement. A case in which a guidewire was unsuspectingly released and retained in a patient during the catheterization of the internal jugular vein is presented. Physicians from multiple services subsequently failed to detect the retained guidewire on several chest radiographs; however, the guidewire was incidentally discovered after a computed tomographic scan was obtained.
authors.affiliation: Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. yohans@stanford.edu
authors.forename: Yohan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Aram K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Messerlian
authors.forename: Rima
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Matevosian
mesh_terms: D002405:Catheterization, Central Venous / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D004868:Equipment Failure; D006801:Humans; D007601:Jugular Veins / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*