Case Report

Bifurcation of Carotico-Subclavian Artery Injury due to Central Venous Catheterization

10.5152/jaem.2014.179

  • Erhan Hafız
  • Vahap Sarıçiçek
  • Ayhan Özkur
  • Hayati Deniz

Received Date: 01.04.2014 Accepted Date: 02.05.2014 Eurasian J Emerg Med 2014;13(3):146-148

The traditional use of catheters in anesthesia, critical care, cardiovascular surgery, and acute medicine continues, and there is also a rapidly increasing requirement for medium-or longer-term central venous catheterization for parenteral nutrition, hemodialysis, cancer chemotherapy, prolonged antibiotics, and other interventions. In this case, we want to present a pseudoaneurysm of bifurcation of a carotid-subclavian artery injury with hematoma due to central venous catheterization.

Keywords: Central venous catheterization, artery injury, pseudoaneurysm