Best Practice in Ultrasound-Guided Internal Jugular Vein Cannulation: The Debate Echoes On

THE DISCOVERY OF ultrasound dates to the 1790s when Lazzaro Spallanzani suspected that bats were using non-audible sounds for echolocation. Almost 2 centuries later, in the 1950s, medicine caught up with Spallanzani when physicians at the University of Glasgow in Scotland developed a prototype ultrasound that was based on an instrument used to detect industrial flaws in ships.1 In 1991, a series of case reports were published detailing the novel use of echocardiography to guide internal jugular vein cannulation.

Source: Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia - June 21, 2019 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Brigid C. Flynn, Jason Mensch Tags: Editorial Source Type: research