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During catheterization for a critically ill patient with clotting issues, the trauma surgeon experienced difficulty while trying to place a cool line catheter (lot # unknown) into the patient's subclavian vein.The patient had some hematomas on the site after the surgeon tried insertion attempts to place the cool line catheter.After few attempts, the surgeon decided to place a quattro catheter (lot # unknown) into the patient's femoral vein and was able to place the catheter successfully to treat the patient.In addition, the surgeon reported guidewire (lot # unknown) being "flimsy." per the customer, there was no device malfunction on the catheters.
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