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(redirected from femoral sheath)

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Chapters on access sites, atrial septal defect closure, cardiac catherization, percutaneous coronary intervention, percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty, removal of femoral sheaths, cardioversion, and temporary and permanent pacemakers are included.
Out with the old, in with the new Since the mid 1980s, laboratory employees at Baptist Memorial Hospital East have used the Hemochron Activated Clotting Time (ACT) to monitor heparinization during cardiac catheterization and open heart surgery as well as to determine the best time for femoral sheath removal in the critical care unit (see "The importance of the ACT test," page 32).
 
 
 
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