Fainting Starting Parenteral Nutrition

Pediatr Emerg Care. 2015 Sep;31(9):648. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000000387.

Abstract

Complications such as mechanical accidents, infections, and thrombosis are commonly described in the presence of a central venous catheter. We present a case of a boy who had fainting episodes due to dislocation of a central venous catheter.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Carotid Sinus / physiopathology
  • Central Venous Catheters / adverse effects*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Humans
  • Infections / complications
  • Infections / etiology
  • Male
  • Parenteral Nutrition, Total / adverse effects*
  • Parenteral Nutrition, Total / instrumentation*
  • Syncope / diagnosis
  • Syncope / etiology*
  • Thrombosis / complications
  • Thrombosis / etiology