Internal jugular vein cannulation has become a routine and clinically important aspect of medical care in hemodialysis patients. Mismanagement in the location of a central venous catheter may occur in up to 20% of cases. The aim of the study was to evaluate the utility of endocavitary electrocardiography in right internal jugular vein placement of central venous catheters.
We examined 327 central venous catheterizations performed in two Dialysis Units; all catheters were positioned using intra-atrial ECG monitoring by guide-wire and after, by catheter filled with NaCl solution. EC-ECG via guide-wire was successful on 321 occasions (98.1%). Correct placement of the catheter was confirmed by EC-ECG via catheter in each case, and by plain chest-X-ray only in the first hundred cases. In 314 patients (98.1%), insertion of the catheter was successful at the first attempt. In 6 catheterizations, no atrial trace was obtained due to atrial fibrillation in 4 cases, and in 2 cases technical error and guide-wire looping into a right jugular vein.
Complications as a direct result of guide-wire or catheter placement were not observed. In our opinion this method can be used safely and makes radiological control usually unnecessary.
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