Audience: Medical students, interns, pediatricians, and radiology residents
Learning Objectives:
Recognize the ideal location and suboptimal locations for the tip of an umbilical arterial catheter in premature infants
Describe the common complications that can arise from an umbilical arterial catheter
Why UACs?
Blood pressure monitoring
Blood pressure medicine
Blood gas measurement
Course of UACs
Umbilical artery - External iliac artery - Common iliac artery - Aorta - T6-T10
Summary:
Why – Blood Pressure, blood gas, blood pressure medicine
Where – T6-T10 ; less ideal between L3-L5
Complications – thrombosis of mesenteric and renal artery vasculature
