ABSTRACT

Central venous catheterization is performed frequently in especially intensive care, major surgery and cancer patients and arterial cannulation is one of the most serious complications of this procedure.Assessment of the colour, pulsatility and pressure of blood coming from the needle or injector, USG guidance, assessment of blood gases, fluoroscopy and echocardiography can be used for avoiding and recognizing this complication during the procedure.In this report; we interpreted the doubt of carotid artery cannulation because of very high oxygenation levels of the blood obtained from catheter after jugular venous catheterization in an intensive care patient with sepsis.