Seldinger technique
Técnica de Seldinger
- Date
- 1953 · confidence high
- Place
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Credited to
- Sven Ivar Seldinger
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
A method for safely accessing a blood vessel by inserting a needle, then a flexible guidewire, and finally a catheter over the wire, devised by Swedish radiologist Sven Ivar Seldinger in Stockholm.
What it led to
- Modern angiography and cardiac catheterization
- Placement of central venous catheters
- Basis of nearly all percutaneous interventional procedures