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[Cubital nerve injury]
L López Naranjo1, F Tirado Altamirano, L M Hernández Neila
1Unidad de Neumología, Hospital INSALUD Virgen del Puerto de Plasencia.
Revista De Enfermeria (Barcelona, Spain)
|July 26, 2000
Abstract:
One of the more frequently accomplished treatment job in the nursing profession is blood extraction. The preferred location is the elbow flection, in the cephalic or basilic veins. Puncture in one of those veins may produce a series of complications as described in every procedure handbook in print. One of them, very rare, is the punction of cubital nerve that may lead to serious consequences for the patient.