Complication of central venous catheter insertion: fragmentation of a guidewire with pulmonary artery embolism

Crit Care Med. 1991 Mar;19(3):438-40. doi: 10.1097/00003246-199103000-00029.

Authors

P G Polos¹, S A Sahn

Affiliation

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 19425-2220.

PMID: 1999111
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199103000-00029

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Catheterization, Central Venous / adverse effects*
Catheterization, Central Venous / instrumentation
Equipment Failure
Female
Foreign-Body Migration / diagnostic imaging
Humans
Middle Aged
Pulmonary Embolism / diagnostic imaging
Pulmonary Embolism / etiology*
Radiography