Point-of-care ultrasound protocol for CVC insertion and tip confirmation – Full Text

“This technical report is meant to detail a point-of-care ultrasound protocol designed for the insertion and confirmation of the correct placement of a CVC in the IJV” Soares et al (2022).

CLABSI risk factors – Full Text

“Here, we analyzed the factors associated with CLABSI in patients with central venous catheter (CVC) insertions and evaluated the effects of our implemented preventive measures” Moriyama et al (2022).

Contrast extravasation protocol – Full Text

“To audit the radiology department of a health facility, focusing on contrast extravasations management pre- and post-implementation of a standard protocol” Masood et al (2022).

Routine laboratory testing in hemodialysis – Full Text

“Hemodialysis patients are followed by routine laboratory testing. There is uncertainty whether these tests always lead to a change in decision-making” Chidiac et al (2022).

Supraclavicular ultrasound-guided vascular access – Full Text

“Supraclavicular USG-guided in-plane BCV cannulation is a good alternative to USG-guided out-of-plane IJV cannulation, because of good calibre of the vein and better needle visualisation in the BCV group” Gowda and Desai (2022).

Heparin PICC lock solution – Full Text

“Heparin sodium could significantly lower the incidence rate of PICC-related venous thrombosis in NSCLC patients during postoperative chemotherapy” Li and Lu (2022).

Central venous access device locking practices

“Due to the high acuity of critical care patients, it is uncertain whether their central lines remain locked for a duration long enough for alternative locking solutions to provide any effect” Ornowska et al (2022).

Peripheral intravenous access in DIVA patients

“ICPs can perform USGPIVA with moderate success. The A-DIVA score could be useful for paramedics to predict difficult cannulation” Burton et al (2022).

Safety and efficacy of midline catheters – Full Text

“Midline catheters appear to be superior for patients with difficult vascular access or receiving prolonged intravenous therapy; a large, multi-centre trial to confirm findings is feasible” Marsh et al (2022).

Disinfection of needleless connectors

“This study aimed to gain further knowledge about the comparative effectiveness of chemical disinfectants in reducing the bacterial load of NCs inoculated with S. aureus” Rocha et al (2022).

Safety engineered devices for paediatric cannulation

“This article describes a report of the attitudes towards and barriers to the use of safety cannulas in paediatric patients” Martinez (2022).

Transilluminator device for peripheral IV catheter placement

“The transilluminator device (TD) is proposed as the effective method for PVCP” Firooz et al (2022).

Peripheral IV-related traumatic neuroma of the ulnar nerve

“Here, the ulnar nerve on the dorsal was injured during peripheral intravenous catheter insertion, and a painful traumatic neuroma was discovered a week later” Chen et al (2022).

Peripheral venipuncture and CVC sampling discrepancy – Full Text

“Unexpectedly, the samples collected from the two different sources showed contrasting results, with the presence of unusual macrophage-like cells in the samples obtained from CVC” Carini et al (2022).

New peripheral IV catheter design

“We aimed to design a new PIVC that reduces the early failure rate of in-dwelling PIVCs and we conducted preliminary tests to assess its efficacy and safety in a porcine model of intravenous access” Doyle et al (2022).

Ultrasound-guided hemodialysis AV fistula access

“Our study showed that US-guided cannulation increased renal nurses’ confidence level in difficult cannulation and improved success rate” Chen et al (2022).

Impact of outpatient diuretic infusion therapy – Full Text

“The results show a 30-day hospital readmission rate at 6-9% in the years analyzed (n=56) with a net savings of $562,815 to $736,560 per year” Nair et al (2022).

Blood culture results – is it bacteremia or contamination – Full Text

“Distinguishing between MDR-positive BCs representing clinically significant bacteremia or simple contamination requires a careful clinical, biological, and microbiological confrontation of each MDR positive BC in order to avoid unnecessary overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics and thus reduce resistance selective pressure” Nachate et al (2022).

Hemodialysis management costs in Italy – Full Text

“The use of plastic cannulae in hemodialysis patients shows improved outcomes compared to traditional metal needles” Tito et al (2022).

AI and smart venipuncture – Full Text

“The difficulties faced in locating veins for intravenous procedures can be diminished using computer vision for vein imaging. To facilitate this, a high-resolution dataset consisting of arm images was curated and has been presented in this study” Kuthiala et al (2022).

Standardisation of equine blood cultures – Full Text

“To standardise and optimise blood culture techniques in horses and foals, future research in this area should be aimed at determining the optimal volume of blood that should be collected for culture, and the ideal site, timing, and frequency of sample collection” Giancola and Hart (2022).

Blood sampling using the push-pull method from a CVC

“The push-pull method of collecting blood specimens from a CVC should be acceptable for coagulation and hematologic laboratory tests” Wang et al (2022).

Safety program for CLABSI prevention

“A Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) is a quality improvement (QI) measure implemented by health care institutions to reduce the incidence of CLABSI” Eturajulu et al (2022).

Placement and management of central venous catheters – Full Text

“This scoping review aims to check the existing international literature related to the placement and management of central venous catheters (CVCs) in adults” Mastrandrea et al (2022).

Optimum time for IV cannulation after induction with Sevoflurane

“In conclusion, we suggest that the appropriate time for cannulation is 85 seconds (1.45 minutes) after the loss of eyelash reflex in children sedated with dexmedetomidine and induction with sevoflurane and nitrous oxide-oxygen mixture” Yarimoglu et al (2022).

Intraprocedural CVC tip location in children

“The combined use of US and IC-ECG (both maneuvers being accurate, inexpensive, cost-effective, non-invasive, and equally fast to perform) should be recommended for tip location in pediatric patients, and it will avoid completely the use of fluoroscopy or of post-procedural x-ray” Pittiruti et al (2022).

Why IV In-Line Filters are Vital – A Case Report of a 13-Year-Old Girl – Pall blog series – Episode 6

“…published a case report emphasizing the importance of proper infusion management, including the presence of an Intravenous (IV) in-line filter in the infusion set-up” PALL 2022.

Stakeholder perspectives about PICC in people who inject drugs – Full Text

“We conducted semi-structured interviews and focus groups to understand the perspectives and opinions of patients and clinicians on the use of PICCs for PWID” Morales et al (2022).

Reducing blood culture contamination in the ED – Full Text

“To determine whether blood culture contamination (BCC) rates could be decreased in the ED by an educational programme” McNab et al (2022).

Simulation-based training for ultrasound-guided CVC placement in pediatric patients – Full Text

“To standardize training and decrease complications, we developed a simulation-based ultrasound-guided CVC placement training program for pediatric critical care providers” Good et al (2022).