Clinical case-intracardiac strange body approach in prematures and children - case report
International Journal of Development Research
Clinical case-intracardiac strange body approach in prematures and children - case report
Received 06th June 2020; Received in revised form 11th July 2020; Accepted 21st August 2020; Published online 29th September 2020
Copyright © 2020, Georgio Moraes Costa et al., This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
As a universal clinical practice, central venous catheterization involves risks and raises many doubts in the patient's approach to complications, especially in the intravascular and intracardiac rupture of the catheters. Catheter rupture and embolization are the most feared, high-risk adverse events for the patient and stressful for family members and professionals involved. Even following the protocols correctly in handling the catheter, the indication of withdrawal does not prevent these complications. In this way we report the clinical and interventional experience with low weight child with rupture and intracardiac embolization of a large catheter fragment and we discuss the clinical approach in these cases and what is the best moment of withdrawal of these devices.
