Is Peripheral Line Placement More Difficult in Obese Than in Lean Patients?
- 1 April 2003
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Anesthesia & Analgesia
- Vol. 96 (4), 1218
- https://doi.org/10.1213/01.ane.0000050570.85195.29
Abstract
This work shows that the insertion of a peripheral venous line is more difficult in obese than in lean patients. The usual recommendation, that a central venous line should be inserted routinely in obese patients to perform anesthesia, is not valid.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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