Inadequate venous drainage-transesophageal echocardiography as rescue

Monish S Raut; Arun Maheshwari; Sumir Dubey; Ganesh Shivnani; Sandeep Joshi; Arvind Verma; Swetanka Das

doi:10.4103/aca.ACA_164_16

Inadequate venous drainage-transesophageal echocardiography as rescue

Ann Card Anaesth. 2017 Jul-Sep;20(3):333-334. doi: 10.4103/aca.ACA_164_16.

Authors

Monish S Raut¹, Arun Maheshwari¹, Sumir Dubey², Ganesh Shivnani², Sandeep Joshi¹, Arvind Verma², Swetanka Das²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiac Anesthesiology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India.
² Department of Cardiac Surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India.

Abstract

Malposition of venous cannula can cause inadequate venous drainage during cardiopulmonary bypass. It would be good clinical practice to use TEE to check the position of inferior venous cannula to avoid this problem at the earliest.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Cardiopulmonary Bypass / adverse effects*
Catheterization, Central Venous / adverse effects
Drainage / adverse effects*
Echocardiography, Transesophageal / methods*
Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation
Hepatic Veins / diagnostic imaging
Humans
Male
Medical Errors
Middle Aged
Mitral Valve / surgery
Vena Cava, Inferior / diagnostic imaging