Intravenous and vascular access literature news and updates.
The aims of this review article are to explore the concepts of quality of care in vascular access” Field et…
Outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) is an established antimicrobial delivery method in the United Kingdom. OPAT services differ nationwide with…
The aim of the study was to evaluate individually uploaded Internet materials about catheter insertion and removal in terms of…
The aim of this study was to share our observations pertaining to the anatomy and position of the right internal…
Here we present a 44 year old female hemodialysis patient with a malpositioned permanent hemodialysis catheter, catheter tip was found…
Our aim was to compare the applications of totally implanted vascular access devices (TIVAD) and peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC)…
Overall, the mean contamination rate progressively declined in a stepwise manner from 3.2% to 1.2% (P = .0013), with the greatest decline…
The prevalence of patients with long-term PN and their clinical characteristics were identified. No differences were found to support the…
This method of catheterization and catheter care allows the realization of long-term experiments with comfortable and stress-free blood sampling” Klein…
We compared target controlled infusion of remifentanil and local lidocaine infiltration to placebo and local lidocaine infiltration to decrease pain…
The aim of this study was to develop quality indicators (QIs) for OPAT care that can be used as metrics…
Syringe and intravenous infusion pumps are not commonly used to deliver hematopoietic stem cell products (HPCs) due to a paradigm…
The aim of this study was to investigate the relevance of the reported SNPs in patients receiving HPN, and to…
We examined post-surgical hyponatremia, hypokalemia and acute kidney injury (AKI), associated with use of either IMF” Winata et al (2019).…
The routine application of the distance between the medial end of the clavicles and a line drawn through the spinous…
Importantly, dalbavancin’s real benefits may be in treating complicated infections in vulnerable patient populations, such as persons who inject drugs”…
The aortic valve (AV) has been used as a surrogate marker for the superior vena cava-right atrium (SVC-RA) junction during…
In some Japanese hospitals, patients using infusion bags for parenteral nutrition containing amino acids have developed Bacillus cereus bloodstream infections”…
UC Health, an academic health system, is focused on improving the management of infusion therapies for its patients” Boesken et…
This study aimed to establish a hazard classification framework of medical devices and to apply it over practical adverse event…
In patients lacking IV access, effective PCC administration becomes problematic. No previous case reports have documented PCC infusion via intraosseous…
During an attempt to insert a central line into the right subclavian vein at bedside, the guidewire inadvertently entered the…
This case suggests that clinical physician should be careful to prevent catheter heterotopia in subclavian vein catheterization, and postoperative routine…
We prospectively followed a cohort of 86 hemodialysis patients from an outpatient dialysis center over 25 months analyzing S. aureus carrier…
To assess the efficacy and safety of a virtual reality distraction for needle pain in 2 common hospital settings” Chan…
We undertook a quality improvement project involving a standardised bundle of care and a peri-operative central venous catheter insertion checklist…
We present a patient who underwent mitral valve replacement (MVR) and a concomitant CM-IV procedure in which the distal end…
This study found that topical anesthetic agents were effective in reducing pain during venipuncture” Kaur et al (2019). Abstract: BACKGROUND:…
We performed a network meta-analysis (NMA) to compare the efficacy and safety of antibiotics used to treat inpatients with complicated…
This review clarifies Candida CRBSI rates by species, risk factors, outcomes, and management to improve effectiveness of HPN programs” Phua…