Femoral and internal jugular vein diameters correlate best with body surface area and body weight, respectively, and increase by about 20% with 15 degrees of positional inclination.
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May inform vein diameter prediction for central access planning; leaves open whether correlations improve procedural success in prospective trials.
Mortensen et al. (1990) studied this question.
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