Clinical review: Complications and risk factors of peripheral arterial catheters used for haemodynamic monitoring in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine

Table 1 Complications following radial artery cannulation

Reference	Cases	Permanent ischaemic damage (n)	Temporary occlusion (n)	Sepsis (n)	Local infection (n)	Pseudoaneurysm (n)	Haematoma (n)	Bleeding (n)
[9]^*	80	1	9	0	0	-	-	-
[9]^*	34	1	10	0	2	-	-	-
[10]	100	0	35	-	-	-	-	-
[11]	148	0	27	-	-	-	-	-
[12]	29	0	5	-	-	-	-	-
[13]	62	0	16	0	0	-	-	-
[14]	333	0	100	0	16	-	29	-
[15]	40	0	2	-	-	-	-	-
[16]	100	2	14	0	1	-	31	-
[17]	197	0	3	3	4	2	-	1
[18]	178	0	7	1	3	-	-	1
[5]	1699	0	360	0	1	-	206	-
[19]	26	0	6	0	1	1	1	-
[20]	100	0	14	-	-	-	-	-
[21]	100	0	33	0	1	-	13	-
[22]	118	0	18	0	0	-	21	-
[23]	200	0	15	-	-	-	61	-
[24]	25	0	3	0	0	-	-	-
[25]	200	0	60	0	0	-	32	-
[26]	193	0	50	0	4	-	-	-
[27]	88	0	15	-	-	-	-	-
[28]	2900	-	-	4	12	5	-	-
[29]	38	0	3	-	-	-	5	-
[30]^*	45	0	4	-	-	-	10	-
[30]^*	44	0	11	-	-	-	9	-
[31]	12,500	-	-	-	-	6	-	-
[32]	40	0	11	-	-	-	-	-
Mean incidence (%)		0.09 (4/4217)	19.7 (831/4217)	0.13 (8/6245)	0.72 (45/6245)	0.09 (14/15,623)	14.40 (418/2903)	0.53 (2/375)

The total number of cannulations was 19,617. ^*One study examining two different populations. -, Not investigated.

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