Ultrasound-guided Central Venous Catheter Placement
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Ultrasound-guided central venous catheter placement: a structured review and recommendations for clinical practice. Although placement of a central venous catheter (CVC) is a routine procedure in intensive care medicine and anesthesiology, acute severe complications (such as arterial puncture or cannulation, hematoma, hemothorax, or pneumothorax) occur in a relevant proportion of patients.