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Is ECG-guidance a helpful method to correctly position a central venous catheter during prehospital emergency care?

J S David1, K Tazarourte, J P Perfus

  • 1Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Emergency Medical System, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Claude Bernard University, Lyon, France. js-david@univ-lyon1.fr

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
|July 28, 2005
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