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Guidewire incidents with inferior vena cava filters
1School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center, 1000 Blythe Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28203, USA. rsing@carolinas.org
The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association
|May 24, 2001
Abstract:
Several authors have demonstrated that prophylactically inserted inferior vena cava filters have decreased pulmonary thromboembolic complications in selected high-risk trauma patients. Guidewire-related mishaps are potential complications of inferior vena cava filters and are likely underreported. The authors present two cases and review strategies to prevent these complications.