You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Best evidence topic report
Local anaesthetic and arterial puncture
  1. Damian Bates,
  2. Peter Cutting
  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL, UK
  1. Correspondence to: Kevin Mackway-Jones, Consultant (kevin.mackway-jones{at}man.ac.uk)

https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.18.5.378

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Report by Damian Bates; Specialist RegistrarChecked by Peter CuttingSpecialist Registrar

    Clinical scenario

    A 67 year old man attends with increasing shortness of breath. He is known to have obstructive airways disease. You want to perform arterial puncture for blood gas measurement. He tells you that last time it was very painful. …

    View Full Text