Combined short-axis out-of-plane and long-axis in-plane approach versus long-axis in-plane approach for ultrasound-guided central venous catheterization in infants and small children: A randomized controlled trial

• Jun Takeshita,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Osaka Prefectural Hospital Organization, Osaka Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Osaka, Japan, Department of Anesthesiology, Kansai Medical University Hospital, Osaka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9162-9864

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• Yasufumi Nakajima,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Kansai Medical University Hospital, Osaka, Japan, Outcomes Research Consortium, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

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• Kazuya Tachibana,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Osaka Prefectural Hospital Organization, Osaka Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Osaka, Japan

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• Hirofumi Hamaba,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Osaka Prefectural Hospital Organization, Osaka Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Osaka, Japan

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• Tomonori Yamashita,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Osaka Prefectural Hospital Organization, Osaka Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Osaka, Japan

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• Nobuaki Shime

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shime@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9113-6151

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