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Operative insertion of a transvenous left atrial pressure monitoring line
C M Satur1, S R Stubington, A D Crew
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Killingbeck Hospital, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|December 1, 1990
Abstract:
We describe a technique for the insertion of a left atrial pressure monitoring line during open heart operations in infants. The procedure requires central venous cannulation with a long catheter, followed by intraoperative placement of the catheter tip through the interatrial septum into the left atrium. The technique has been used successfully in 35 infants.