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A technique for easy vascular access in patients undergoing plasmapheresis
Journal of Clinical Apheresis
|January 1, 1982
Abstract:
Gaining vascular access in some patients undergoing plasmapheresis procedure may prove to be difficult. Twenty-four percent of our patients had either a poor vascular access or poor blood flow. This report describes a technique for obtaining good vascular access in otherwise difficult patients, which we believe to be easy, safe, time saving and cost effective.
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