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Central venous catheters and insertion depths: are formulas still up to date?

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  1. Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Leipzig, Liebigstr. 20, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

    Manuel F. Struck

  2. Department of Medical Psychology, Bergmannstrost Hospital Halle, Halle, Germany

    Thomas Schmidt

  3. Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Bernd E. Winkler

  4. Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany

    Konrad Reinhart & Wolfram Schummer

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Struck, M.F., Schmidt, T., Winkler, B.E. et al. Central venous catheters and insertion depths: are formulas still up to date?. Intensive Care Med 41, 2002–2003 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-015-3959-y

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