Case Report
Guidewire-Related Complications during Central Venous Catheter Placement: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Table 1
The most commonly reported guidewire-related complications.
| (i) Cardiac dysrhythmias | (ii) Cardiac conduction abnormalities | (iii) Perforation of vessels or cardiac chambers | (iv) Kinking, looping, or knotting of the wire | (v) Entanglement of previously placed intravascular devices | (vi) Breakage of the distal tip of the guidewire with subsequent embolization | (vii) Complete loss of the guidewire within the vascular system |
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