Using saline-buffered lidocaine
“The saline-buffered lidocaine provided comparable pain relief compared with the lidocaine buffered with bicarbonate” Plohal et al (2022).
Predicting ultrasound-guided peripheral IV catheter failure
“This study demonstrated that catheter length in vein (>2.75 cm) was associated with improved US PIVC survival highlighting the value of longer catheters in US PIVC survival” Bahl et al (2022).
CVAD complications in onco-hematologic children
“There was no difference in terms of complications between PICCs and CICCs or between tunneled and non-tunneled catheters” Annetta et al (2022).
Tunnelled PICC research proposal – Full Text
“This TUNNEL-PICC trial will provide evidence for the effectiveness of subcutaneous tunnelling in decreasing the risk of CLABSI” Kwon et al (2022).
CLABSI in patients with haematological malignancy
“Variability exists in the management of catheters given the need for long-term access and co-existing thrombocytopenia or coagulopathy. We conducted a systematic review to evaluate catheter management in patients with CRBSI” Heybati et al (2022).
CVC tip navigation and tip location system
“This study confirms a possible future role of CFS for intra-procedural tip location and tip navigation, though its use cannot be currently recommended” D’Arrigo et al (2022).
Review of plasma transfusion practices
“Chart audits find half of plasma transfusions unnecessary, resulting in avoidable complications and costs” Khandelwal et al (2022).
New national Swedish blood culture recommendations
“New national recommendations recommend collection of four blood culture bottles from the same venipuncture as the routine blood culture method in Sweden” Özenci et al (2022).
Rare opportunistic CLABSI organisms – Full Text
“We present an unusual case of rare opportunistic organisms causing bacteraemia and fungaemia in a patient with a long-term catheter” Ahamad et al (2022)
Lutathera administration technique
“This work compares two infusion methods from a medico-economic, radiation protection, efficiency and practicality point of view” Donzé et al (2022).
Transfusion support for patients with sickle cell disease
“Transfusion goals include increasing blood oxygen carrying capacity and decreasing the relative amount of HbS to HbA to mitigate vaso-occlusion in small blood vessels” Wallace and Thibodeaux (2022).
Preventing implantable port complications – Full Text
“Standardized operative and perioperative TIVAP implantation procedures provide excellent results and low explantation rate” Thiel et al (2022).
Sharp injury prevention in Italy – Full Text
“Sharp injuries, determining the risk of bloodborne infections and psychological distress in healthcare workers, may be prevented by a set of strategies, legally enforced in Europe through the Directive 2010/32/EU” De Carli et al (2022).
Inadvertent carotid artery cannulation – Full Text
“Arterial puncture with a small “finder” needle is usually benign and occurs in up to 11% of cases of IJV cannulation” Arora and Lee (2022).
Point-of-care ultrasound training – Full Text
“POCUS education is present in Italian anaesthesia and critical care residency programs, although with potential for improvement. Significant discrepancies between residents’ and directors’ perspectives were identified” Mongodi et al (2022).
Blood culture incubation system review – Full Text
“We report the first clinical diagnostic study of this scale in a “real-world” setting with a crossover design, comparing two automatic blood culture incubators using samples from patients with a suspected diagnosis of bacteremia/sepsis, as opposed to spiked vials” Halperin et al (2022).
Extravasation severity prediction
“These findings proposed a novel and feasible DNN approach for screening extravasation from skin images” Munthuli et al (2022).
Predictive model for PICC-related thrombosis
“Artificial neural network model can effectively predict peripherally inserted central catheter-related thrombosis in breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy” Fu et al (2022).
Hub disinfection compliance – Full Text
“To describe the compliance to the practices of hand hygiene and hub disinfection before manipulation of the central venous catheter in two moments: before and after educational intervention” Lobo et al (2022).
Preventing neonatal peripheral IV insertion pain
“Kangaroo care, fetal position and swaddling methods can be used in clinical practice in order to reduce the pain level and increase the comfort level during and after peripheral vascular access in prematures” Çiftci et al (2022).
3D printed intraosseous line placement trainer
“After a task trainer has been used to practice a procedure, such as intraosseous line placement, the tissue media, molds, and bones are reclaimable and may be reused to create a fresh task trainer, free of puncture sites and manipulation defects, for use in subsequent training sessions” Markin et al (2022).
Peripheral intravenous catheterisation pack – Full Text
“The developed pack appears to be a promising device that can assist healthcare professionals in providing efficient and safe care to patients requiring a PIVC” Santos-Costa et al (2022).
Tunneled hemodialysis catheter dysfunction – Full Text
“Female and hypertensive patients are considerably at higher risk of catheter thrombosis, whereas diabetes is the most critical risk factor for infectious catheter dysfunction” Mohazzab et al (2022).
Implantable port CLABSI risk factors – Full Text
“TIVAD infection may be related to thrombocytopenia at the time of device insertion. Further studies are needed to identify preventive factors against TIVAD infections in children with cancer” Lee and Choi (2022).
Accidental cannulation of the carotid artery – Full Text
“This report is the first documented intraoperative ultrasound video demonstrating accidental and simultaneous common carotid artery and internal jugular cannulation during central line placement in the internal jugular vein” Mittal et al (2022).
Homemade ultrasound peripheral IV training phantom – Full Text
“Homemade ultrasound phantoms are cost effective, increase confidence, and improve emergency medicine residents’ ability to perform ultrasound-guided vein cannulation” Sabak et al (2022).
Detecting early extravasation
“Here, an ultrathin bioimpedance microsensor array that can be integrated on intravenous needles for early and sensitive detection of extravasation is reported” Lin et al (2022).
Antibiotic resistance and CRBSI
“This study was designed to detect the prevalence of antibiotic and antiseptic resistance genes, mecA and qacA/B in coagulase negative Staphylococcus (CoNS) species isolated from intensive care unit patients with catheter related blood stream infections (CRBSI) or colonized central venous catheters (CVC)” Medis et al (2022).
Neonatal intraosseous acyclovir infusion – Full Text
“We present the case of a 2-week-old neonate, admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) due to suspected meningitis, who received acyclovir through IO infusion after the venous access was lost and a new one could not be established” De Marca et al (2022).
Bedside tunneled femoral CVC in infants
“We show that US-guided durable tunneled femoral central venous catheter (TF-CVC) insertion by an intensivist at the bedside is a technically feasible and safe prolonged central venous access option in critically ill, high-risk infants and neonates in the PCICU” Shostak et al (2022).