A 46-year-old man with sickle cell disease was assessed in our outpatient clinic for right neck pain. To facilitate venous access for manual exchange transfusions and iron chelation therapy, a central ...

Continue to advance the catheter until a right-atrial-pressure waveform is transduced. The distance to the right atrium is typically 15 to 20 cm from an internal jugular or subclavian vein, and ...

Arterial puncture, hematoma, and pneumothorax are the most common mechanical complications during the insertion of central venous catheters (Table 2). Overall, internal jugular catheterization and ...

The device consists of a silicone cannula, which is placed in a central venous location (usually via the right internal jugular vein with the tip positioned in the right atrium) and is connected ...

ORLANDO, Fla.—In patients selected for placement of a tunneled dialysis catheter (TDC), right internal jugular vein placement should be used preferentially to maximize catheter survival ...