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©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email Axillary artery puncture Technique of axillary artery puncture. The arm should be hyperabducted and externally rotated. The needle should be inserted into the artery as high as possible within the axilla. Adapted from American Heart Association. Textbook of Advanced Cardiac Life Support, 1994.