Mini-epidemic of Erroneous Central Venous Pressure Measurements Resulting from the Malproduction of a Specific Part of a Pressure Transducer System | Zendy

Klaus Görlinger | Zendy; Clemens Kehren | Zendy; Jürgen Peters | Zendy

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Mini-epidemic of Erroneous Central Venous Pressure Measurements Resulting from the Malproduction of a Specific Part of a Pressure Transducer System

Author(s) -

Klaus Görlinger,

Clemens Kehren,

Jürgen Peters

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

anesthesiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.874

H-Index - 234

eISSN - 1528-1175

pISSN - 0003-3022

DOI - 10.1097/aln.0b013e3181a5ce3e

Subject(s) - medicine , central venous pressure , transducer , critically ill , venous pressure , blood pressure , pressure sensor , intensive care medicine , pressure measurement , acoustics , mechanical engineering , heart rate , physics , engineering

Electromanometric blood pressure measurements are routine in critically ill patients, and many interventions are based on correct measurements. We report a mini-epidemic of erroneous central venous pressure measurements due to faulty pressure transducer manufacturing resulting in wrong therapeutic decisions.

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