Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 54, Issue 1 , Pages 33-40, July 2009

Ultrasonographically Guided Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation in Emergency Department Patients With Difficult Intravenous Access: A Randomized Trial

Presented as an abstract at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine meeting, May 2005, New York, NY.

University of California, San Francisco, Emergency Department, San Francisco, CA

Received 18 June 2007; received in revised form 6 February 2008 and 9 June 2008; accepted 29 July 2008. published online 29 September 2008.

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 Supervising editor: William R. Mower, MD, PhD

 Dr. Callaham recused himself from the decision process for this article.

 Author contributions: JS, BG, and DM conceived the study and designed the trial. JS, BG, and DM supervised the conduct of the trial and data collection. JS provided statistical advice on study design and analyzed the data. JS drafted the article, and all authors contributed substantially to its revisions. JS and DM take responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article that might create any potential conflict of interest. The authors have stated that no such relationships exist. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement.

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PII: S0196-0644(08)01585-0

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.07.048

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 54, Issue 1 , Pages 33-40, July 2009