Accidental Puncture of the Pulmonary Artery during a Subclavian Central Venous Catheterization

Copyright © 2012 Jérôme Moriceau et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The complications associated with central venous catheterization are common and well known. Commonmalplacement locations have been described in the literature. We report the case of a direct puncture of the pulmonary artery during a subclavian central venous catheterization. 1