Fluoroscopically guided epidural blood patch in patients with postdural puncture headache after spinal and epidural anesthesia.
J Anesth. 2011 Jun;25(3):450-3
Authors: Kawaguchi M, Hashizume K, Watanabe K, Inoue S, Furuya H
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Transcutaneous pressure at which the internal jugular vein is collapsed on ultrasonic imaging predicts easiness of the venous puncture.
J Anesth. 2011 Apr;25(2):308-11
Authors: Joo WJ, Fukui M, Kooguchi K, Sakaguchi M, Shinzat…

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Time-consumption risk of real-time ultrasound-guided internal jugular vein cannulation in pediatric patients: comparison with two conventional techniques.

J Anesth. 2010 Aug;24(4):653-5

Authors: Yoshida H, Kushikata T, Kitayama M, Hashimoto H, Kimura F, Niwa H, Ishihara H, Hirota K

To assess the efficacy of three different methods for internal jugular vein (IJV) cannulation in pediatric patients, we conducted a review of patients undergoing cardiovascular surgery over an 11-year period, in which success rates for cannulation and time from induction of anesthesia to cannulation were evaluated. The success rate was better for real-time ultrasound guidance (USG: 90%) than for anatomic landmarks (AL: 76%) or audio-Doppler guidance (ADG: 74%) and the time required was greater for USG (35.0 +/- 13.6 min) than for AL (26.7 +/- 11.2 min) or ADG (29.2 +/- 8.9 min). However, USG resulted in a higher success rate than the other methods with comparable procedure time for smaller-body-weight (<5 kg) patients. Thus real-time USG leads to the highest success rate for IJV cannulation but with a significant time delay, whereas it was the most useful without time delay for the smaller-body-weight subgroup.

PMID: 20458596 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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