Abdallah Almaghraby
Department of Cardiology and Angiology, University of Alexandria, Egypt
Publications
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Case Report
A Catastrophe Caused by Central Venous Catheter Insertion: A Case Report
Author(s): Abdallah Almaghraby*, Yehia Saleh, Basma Hammad, Mahmoud Abdelnaby, Judy Rizk, Mohammed Seleem and Sanaa Ashour
Central venous catheterization (CVC) is a routine technique done in critical care and emergency departments for monitoring patients and giving certain parenteral medications in special conditions. Most common complications associated with CVCs are infection, hematoma, hemothorax, pneumothorax and superior or inferior vena cava trauma while rare complications include cardiac arrhythmias, air embolism and loss of the guide wire [1]. We are reporting a case of unrecognized loss of CVC guide wire that caused a very rare unexplained cardiac complication... Read More»