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Vessel health and preservation

“Implementing a VHP program across institutions requires leadership support, interprofessional education, and integration into electronic health records. Adopting this proactive model improves first-attempt insertion success, reduces delays in therapy, and lowers complication rates. In complex cases, timely advancement to specialty placement ensures continued vascular health while maintaining access to essential treatments” Moureau (2025).

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Removal of very long-term central venous access devices

“An international cross-sectional survey was carried out to evaluate clinicians’ experiences in the management of very long-term CVADs (tunneled/Port catheters >10 years; Peripherally-Inserted Central Catheters-PICCs >2 years) and their opinions on elective replacement of these devices” Pironi et al (2025).

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Intravenous medication administration practices – Full Text

“Improving nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors through targeted education and continuous clinical practice monitoring is essential for enhancing medication safety in critical care. Regular training and evaluation programs are vital to minimizing medication errors and ensuring safe and effective healthcare practices in ICUs” Ahmad et al (2025).

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Peripheral parenteral nutrition extravasation

“Aging, neoplasms (especially hematological malignancy), malnutrition, and blood coagulation abnormalities were common characteristics of patients with PPN extravasation. Nurses should be careful about PPN extravasation even at midnight or in the early hours of the morning because of the relatively poor subjective symptoms, such as pain and discomfort, caused by PPN extravasation” Maezawa et al (2025).

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Implementation of an infusion therapy nursing team

“The team was formed by 2 infusion therapy nurses. In the first year, 1502 activities were carried out, with a predominance of peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) insertions (896; 59.6%); consultations related to infusion therapy (185; 12.3%); and PICC clearance procedures (103; 6.8%). PICCs were inserted using tip navigation and intracavitary electrocardiogram guidance in 82.5% of cases” Messias et al (2025).

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Midline catheters for blood specimen collection

“Midline catheters can be used for specimen collection in difficult-to-access populations. The low complication rates and decreased patient venipunctures support consideration of this intervention. However, more work is needed to standardize best practice in this area” Kennedy et al (2025).

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Vessel health and preservation

“Implementing a VHP program across institutions requires leadership support, interprofessional education, and integration into electronic health records. Adopting this proactive model improves first-attempt insertion success, reduces delays in therapy, and lowers complication rates. In complex cases, timely advancement to specialty placement ensures continued vascular health while maintaining access to essential treatments” Moureau (2025).

Read More »

Removal of very long-term central venous access devices

“An international cross-sectional survey was carried out to evaluate clinicians’ experiences in the management of very long-term CVADs (tunneled/Port catheters >10 years; Peripherally-Inserted Central Catheters-PICCs >2 years) and their opinions on elective replacement of these devices” Pironi et al (2025).

Read More »

Intravenous medication administration practices – Full Text

“Improving nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors through targeted education and continuous clinical practice monitoring is essential for enhancing medication safety in critical care. Regular training and evaluation programs are vital to minimizing medication errors and ensuring safe and effective healthcare practices in ICUs” Ahmad et al (2025).

Read More »

Peripheral parenteral nutrition extravasation

“Aging, neoplasms (especially hematological malignancy), malnutrition, and blood coagulation abnormalities were common characteristics of patients with PPN extravasation. Nurses should be careful about PPN extravasation even at midnight or in the early hours of the morning because of the relatively poor subjective symptoms, such as pain and discomfort, caused by PPN extravasation” Maezawa et al (2025).

Read More »

Implementation of an infusion therapy nursing team

“The team was formed by 2 infusion therapy nurses. In the first year, 1502 activities were carried out, with a predominance of peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) insertions (896; 59.6%); consultations related to infusion therapy (185; 12.3%); and PICC clearance procedures (103; 6.8%). PICCs were inserted using tip navigation and intracavitary electrocardiogram guidance in 82.5% of cases” Messias et al (2025).

Read More »

Midline catheters for blood specimen collection

“Midline catheters can be used for specimen collection in difficult-to-access populations. The low complication rates and decreased patient venipunctures support consideration of this intervention. However, more work is needed to standardize best practice in this area” Kennedy et al (2025).

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Survey of anticancer drug wastage – Full Text

“According to this real-world survey, it was shown that the amount of drug wastage in this center is substantial and imposes a heavy financial burden on patients and the health system that need to be taken into account by policy makers” Baharvand Iran Nia et al (2025).

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Prevention of CRBSI in United States hemodialysis facilities

“New commercially available products containing chlorhexidine and taurolidine promise to augment core interventions to prevent CRBSI in dialysis facilities. This manuscript reviews selected topics and recent advances in knowledge related to preventing CRBSI in HD, with emphasis on dialysis care in United States” Wong (2025).

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Review of non-tunneled hemodialysis catheters

“Triple-lumen catheters were associated with a higher risk of infection, but their increasing use over time coincided with a decline in infection rates. Further research is needed to confirm these findings and explore the mechanisms underlying demographic and design-related infection risks” Miller et al (2025).

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