Open Seldinger-Guided Femoral Artery Cannulation Technique for Thoracic Aortic Surgery Athanasios Tsiouris, MD, Sherif Elkinany, MD, Bulat A. Ziganshin, MD, John A. Elefteriades, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 101, Issue 6, Pages 2231-2235 (June 2016) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.12.032 Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 (A) Single pursestring suture is placed on the exposed anterior femoral artery. (B) The FemFlex arterial cannula is advanced in a Seldinger-technique fashion over the guidewire. (C) The internal dilator is removed, and the pursestring is cinched down. (D) The cannula is removed and the pursestring is tied. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2016 101, 2231-2235DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.12.032) Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions