Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 5 , Pages 456-461 , November 2005

Ultrasonography-Guided Peripheral Intravenous Access Versus Traditional Approaches in Patients With Difficult Intravenous Access

Received 4 June 2004 ,Revised 17 December 2004 ,Accepted 30 December 2004.

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 Supervising editor: David T. Overton, MD, MBAAuthor contributions: TGC, AKP, and JPF conceived the study, designed the trial, and obtained institutional review board approval. TGC and AKP supervised the conduct of the trial and data collection. WAS provided statistical advice on study design and analyzed the data. TGC drafted the manuscript, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. TGC takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Funding and support: The authors report this study did not receive any outside funding or support.Presented at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, May 2004, Orlando, FL.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(05)00057-0

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.12.026

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 5 , Pages 456-461 , November 2005

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