Cardiac tamponade secondary to the use of central venous catheter is a rare complication; however, it is potentially reversible when it is caught in time. We report two cases of cardiac tamponade that was diagnosed using a transthoracic echocardiography, followed by urgent pericardiocentesis and surgical pericardial drainage as a complication from umbilical venous catheterization. In one case, ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the success and long-term complications associated with the use of continent catheterizable conduits based on the Mitrofanoff principle in children. PATIENTS AND METHODS The records of 43 patients (21 female and 22 male) who underwent the construction of a continent catheterizable stoma based on the Mitrofanoff principle between 1987 and 1996 were reviewed retrospective...

strict surgical asepsis, the use of transparent catheter (polyvinyl feeding tube with a rounded end and side holes) for umbilical catheterization was strongly suggested, as it enabled easy identification of the air bubbles that can cause of air embolism if pushed into the circulation. The clearance of blocked catheters (clots in the circulation) using pressure was strongly reprehended. In situa...

Classical teaching has been based on “see one—do one.” More recently, a stepwise approach described that four steps: demonstration, deconstruction, comprehension, and performance.1,2 The process of achieving competence includes structured skill training, not just doing the technique.3Medical students have to learn perform several procedures before end their medical school training. One competen...

To study nutrition and metabolism in the fetal pig, a chronic catheterization method was developed that allows blood sampling in arteries and veins, at both the umbilical and uterine sources, in the conscious, unstressed animal. A catheter was inserted in the fetal aorta through a femoral artery, and another one was introduced in the umbilical vein. A catheter was put in a femoral artery of the...

BACKGROUND: The present study was undertaken to examine the feasibility of venous oxygen measurements in the inferior vena cava (IVC) via a catheter through the umbilical vein. This may serve as a proxy for mixed venous oxygenation and the complications of right atrial cannulation can be avoided at the same time. It has the added advantage of not being affected by atrial right-left shunting. RE...