Bedside intravascular ultrasound-guided inferior vena cava filter placement in medical-surgical intensive care critically-ill patients

Bedside intravascular ultrasound-guided inferior vena cava filter placement in medical-surgical intensive care critically-ill patients

Introduction and objective: Pulmonary Embolism (PE) is a potentially life-threatening complication of critical illness. Prophylactic inferior vena cava filter (IVC) placement offers a protection rate of 99% against fatal PE. Transportation of critically ill patients from the intensive care unit to t...

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Main Authors: Mohammad A. Abusedera, Kyung Cho, David M. Williams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2015-09-01
Series:The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Subjects:
IVUS
IVC filter
Bedside
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378603X15000686

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