Clinical Procedure
 
Aliases:
Radial arterial line

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Abnormally small and absent radial arteries were found in 16% of this series of patients with trisomy 21 and congenital heart-disease and 11% of those without congenital heart-disease.

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1986, 61, 885-890
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If you feel a radial pulse on the patient's wrist that seems to radiate across the whole ventral surface rather than just over where the radial artery should be, consider that the radial artery may have an alternative path that crosses medially at first towards the ulnar artery.

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