Intravenous iron therapy for children

“The IV iron infusion was applied to 64% of the patients because of unresponsiveness to oral treatment, 25% of the patients because of compliance problems, and 11% of the patients because of severe anemia” Orhan and Büyükavci (2022).

Skin disinfection for vascular access – Full Text

“To characterize and compare the bacterial communities of skin samples from patients before an antisepsis procedure, and after removal of the medical device itself, according to the nature of the antiseptic molecule (povidone iodine or chlorhexidine)” Prat et al (2022).

Hemodialysis catheter tip position – Full Text

“To investigate whether a weighted mean calculated from published results for two two-dimensional landmark reference distances may be useful in assessing CVC tip positions in relation to the RA” Auer et al (2022).

Biofilm formation and CRBSI – Full Text

“We evaluated the biofilm formation and antimicrobials resistance (AMR) of Enterobacter cloacae complex and Candida parapsilosis co-isolated from a CRBSI patient” Štefánek et al (2022).

Adherence to central venous catheter maintenance bundle – Full Text

“To check adherence to the Central Venous Catheter maintenance bundle in an Intensive Care Unit, after an educational intervention to the professionals who provide care to patients using this catheter” Quadros et al (2022).

Management of inadvertent arterial catheterization – Full Text

“Recently, endovascular balloon tamponade has emerged as the preferred initial approach to repair inadvertent arterial cannulations” Papastratigakis et al (2022).

Persistent left superior vena cava anomaly

“The persistent left superior vena cava (LSVC) is a common anomaly of congenital heart disease” Dave et al (2022).

Extravasation injury during pediatric critical care transport

“During pediatric critical care transport, we did not find a difference in prevalence of adverse events following the administration of vasoactive drugs via peripheral venous catheters or via central venous and intraosseous catheters” Peshimam et al (2022).

Neonatal vascular access outcomes – Full Text

“Our aim was to study practices regarding the choice of vascular access and outcomes” Riskinet al (2022).

Aseptic technique during vascular access procedures

“The objectives of this roundtable of experts were to achieve a consensus on how to improve skin antisepsis in hospital, improve training, competency, compliance and consistency in skin antisepsis, review the role of devices in improving skin antisepsis, identify methods to improve skin antisepsis integrated with the Aseptic Non Touch Technique (ANTT®) approach, and identify challenges to the implementation of the panel’s recommendations” Barton et al (2022).

Peripheral IV cannula insertion standard protocol

“This study was designed to study the efficacy and safety of recommended Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for peripheral intravascular catheter insertion practice and its comparison with a standard insertion protocol being followed and their outcome” Gupta et al (2022).

Monitoring infusion accuracy with IV pump event logs

“We demonstrated pump event logs and EHR data can be utilized to study time discrepancies in infusion administration at scale” Tung et al (2022).

Phlebotomy and iatrogenic anemia development

“Phlebotomy continues to be a major source of blood loss in hospitalized patients with critical illness, and more intensive phlebotomy practices are associated with lower hemoglobin concentrations and greater transfusion utilization” Matzek et al (2022).

Antiseptic barrier caps to prevent CLABSI – Full Text

“In conclusion, while available evidence suggests that ABCs are effective, safe, easy in use, and cost-effective. However, due to the poor methodological quality of most available studies, more robust data should justify their use at this point” Gillis et al (2022).

Implantable port complication rates in pediatrics

“This study was designed to determine complication rates among the pediatric population who underwent port-a-cath implantation for chemotherapy” Jahangiri et al (2022).

Fungal catheter related blood stream infection

“The occurrence of a fungal CRBSI does not increase the risk of death compared to patients who have bacterial CRBSI or those without a CRBSI event” Bond et al (2022).

CRBSI most frequent source of BSI in head and neck cancer patients – Full Text

“CRBSIs are the most frequent source of BSIs in patients with head and neck cancer” Kitaya et al (2022).

Infusion bottle medical waste treatment – Full Text

“The effectiveness of the disinfection of infusion bottles contaminated with bacteria using soil solution reduces the number of bacteria by 98%” Marsum et al (2022).

Implantable port associated right atrial thrombosis – Full Text

“Cardiac metastasis secondary to bone sarcoma and catheter-related right atrial thrombosis (CRAT) can be both present as cardiac masses” Zhou et al (2022).

Development of automated central vascular access devices – Full Text

“Automated central vascular access devices (ACVADs) using ultrasound and robotics are being developed” Boice et al (2022).

Administration of three-percent sodium chloride infusion – Full Text

“There were no reported local infusion reaction events associated with 3% NaCl in a large healthcare system over a 10-year period. This suggests that 3% NaCl can be safely administered through a peripheral IV or central venous catheter” Moritz et al (2022).

Implantable port flushing with sodium chloride

“Successful implementation of this practice change demonstrates that 0.9% sodium chloride may be used for IVAD lock when deaccessing” Hoffman and Fischer-Cartlidge (2022).

Detecting CVC-associated thrombosis in critically ill children

“Using standardized definitions, we aimed to determine the accuracy of physical examination in detecting CADVT in critically ill children and to identify characteristics associated with this accuracy” Huibonhoa et al (2022).

Inside an IV in-line filter – learn more about IV filtration mechanisms – Pall blog series – Episode 5

“Experimental and clinical studies have proven that our IV in-line filtration devices can retain particles, air bubbles, microorganisms, their associated endotoxins, and enlarged lipid droplets” Pall (2022).

Transfusion-associated adverse events

“Updated terms of hemovigilance and transfusion-associated adverse events (TAAEs) are presented through this case study” Lea et al (2022).

Detecting catheter dislodgement in IV infiltration

“Severe infiltration outcomes can be avoided or minimized if the patient’s care provider is alerted of the infiltration at its earliest onset” Lea et al (2022).

Midline catheter material and associated failure rate

“This suggests that a midline catheter constructed of HBM biomaterial is associated with significantly lower rates of failure, thereby improving patient experience and health care economics” Bunch (2022).

Effect of fist clenching on vein visibility

“In this study, the researchers aimed to determine the average number and duration of fist clenching to increase vein visibility and palpability before peripheral intravenous catheter insertion” Eren et al (2022).

Healthcare-associated infection prevention in Israel – Full Text

“We provide a status report of the IPC characteristics and practices Israeli hospitals are currently using to prevent HAIs during the COVID-19 era” Najjar-Debbiny et al (2022).

PICC maintenance schedule every ten days

“Newborns requiring intravenous therapy will benefit from care and maintenance every 10 days, and this practice could potentially spread to other NICUs” Garduño-Crespo et al (2022).