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Haemorrhage from femoral vein cannula: an additional potential source of haemorrhage among intravenous drug users

Cooke, R.
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Fitzpatrick, J.
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Haemorrhage
 Femoral Artery
 Cannula
 Substance Abuse
 Emergency Medical Services
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Emergency Medicine Journal
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12417/883
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10.1136/emj.2008.071175
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Use of the femoral vein for self-administration of drugs is increasing among intravenous drug users. We report an unusual source of haemorrhage in an habitual intravenous drug user involved in trauma. https://emj.bmj.com/content/26/9/675. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emj.2008.071175
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