Endo-EKG

The endo-EKG (e.g. Alphacard ) is an electrocardiographic and direct option to check the position of the catheter when a central venous catheter is placed . This is done after the ZVK has been inserted with the help of a connected additional module. The electrical be heart potentials passed through the catheter and the amount of the P-wave on EKG - Monitor read.

• Advantage:
  • Immediate position control of the ZVK
  • no unnecessary x-ray exposure
  • no associated transport of the patient

• Disadvantage:
  • no precise assessment of cardiac arrhythmias , especially atrial fibrillation with a missing P-wave.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Hartig: Nutritional and infusion therapy. Standards for clinics, intensive care units and outpatient departments; 232 tables Georg Thieme Verlag , 2004, p. 194, ISBN 9783131307385

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