Complications associated with PICC tunneling
“The findings of this study suggest that both standard and pseudo-tunnels provide comparable levels of safety and comfort for patients. It was noted that Pseudotunnel offers an equivalent level of safety for patients with coagulation disorders related to PLT and INR, rendering it comparable to a “minimally invasive procedure,” which necessitates the same precautions as a non-tunneled PICC” Elli et al (2024).
Multiple peripheral IV access attempts case study
“This article presents an exemplar case study of a PIVC insertion to describe toxic stress responses a premature infant experienced during the procedure” Alsabti et al (2024).
Ultrasound-guided cannulation training for foundation doctors – Full Text
“Confidence when performing PIVC with difficult access, regardless of USS, increased significantly following the course (p < 0.01). This was also true regarding confidence when performing USS-PIVC (p < 0.01.). Key themes identified included technical skills, confidence, and clinical utility" Pham et al (2024).
Impact of virtual reality on procedural pain in paediatric oncology
“To study the impact of using virtual reality on the perception of procedural pain and on the course of care in pediatric oncology” Jbebli et al (2024).
Cellulitis home-based treatment in children
“Implementing a directed ambulatory care pathway for children with moderate periorbital cellulitis proved to be an effective and safe management strategy. This approach reduces the strain on hospital bed occupancy while promoting community-based patient care” McPherson et al (2024).
Malfunctions of non-electrical infusion pumps – Full Text
“Non-electrical infusion pumps (neIPs) are used to infuse smaller volumes over a defined period of time. There are two types of neIPs: elastomeric pumps and mechanical pumps with a spring mechanism” Munzert and Jacobshagen (2024).
Effectiveness of intraosseous access during resuscitation – Full Text
“Intraosseous access demonstrates a high success rate for infusion, independent of gender, age, weight, anatomical positioning, or healthcare setting, with minimal complication rates. Caution is especially warranted for children under the age of six months, since success rate was lower” Rijnhout et al (2024).
Dehydration and rehydration strategies – Full Text
“Overall, this review aims to enhance the understanding of the conditions in which in vivo dehydration models and rehydration strategies are applicable, thereby advancing research into the physiological and pathological mechanisms of dehydration and supporting the development of effective rehydration therapies” Wang et al (2024).
Complications linked to implantable port removal – Full Text
“Complications during removal were uncommon but included bleeding, difficulty in removing the port and catheter, and delayed wound healing” Su et al (2024).
Cerebral air embolism following a hemodialysis session – Full Text
“This case highlights the importance of considering patients who have a lung transplant to be at increased risk for air emboli during hemodialysis and the need to rapidly recognize symptoms and start treatment, including HBOT, to optimize recovery” Bousbaa et al (2024).
Central venous catheter removal-associated air embolism
“Our survey revealed inappropriately low awareness of CVC removal-associated air embolism risk and low familiarity with CVC removal best-practice recommendations among nonintensive care unit healthcare workers” Karlinskaya et al (2024).
Management of medical adhesive-related skin injuries
“This project successfully enhanced nurses’ compliance with MARSI prevention and management and increased the knowledge and skills of both nurses and patients about MARSI” Tang et al (2024).
GloVANet-WoCoVA position statement on the nomenclature for vascular access devices – Full Text
“A panel of international vascular access experts from several clinical domains was selected by the Scientific Committee of WoCoVA to develop a position statement around vascular access device nomenclature” van Rens et al (2024).
OPAT intervention reduces hospital and emergency department stay
“Nine studies delivered outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) to children and were associated with reduced LOS and cost but longer duration of antibiotic treatment” Dick et al (2024).
Predictors of successful long-term hemodialysis access outcomes
“Understanding predictors of successful long-term access outcomes can guide decision-making regarding access type and alternative strategies. In our cohort, increased age and prior central venous catheter placement are associated with a shorter time to failure of permanent hemodialysis access and an increased risk of needing revision” Talebi et al (2024).
Improved CLABSI prevention bundles
“Sensitizing physicians to the existence and duration of CVCs accompanied with improved bundle-prevention measures, resulted in reduction of pCVCs, and outside the ICU, also in reduction of CVC-UR and CLABSI rates” Regev et al (2024).
Using central venous access devices outside of ICU settings
“Reliable and long-lasting venous access in children is preferred outside the ICU settings where CVADs are essential for long-term treatment involving administration of long-term nutrition in gut enteropathies, chemotherapy, hemodialysis as well as in palliative situations requiring pain medications or administration of antibiotics as in chronic osteomyelitis” Rajkumar et al (2024).
IV catheter foreign body found in heart – Full Text
“Health care professionals must check upon removal of peripheral intravenous access, and record whether the integrity of the peripheral catheter tip was compromised to prevent similar events in future” Şahin et al (2024).
Impact of inappropriate central line blood cultures
“The infectious diseases service was consulted for possible catheter related bloodstream infection (CRBSI). The consultant determined that the risk of CRBSI was low because the tunneled line was nontender without surrounding erythema or drainage, and the patient had a known alternative source of infection” Fuher et al (2024).
Potential bias in hospital-based transfusion medicine
“Hospital-based transfusion involves hundreds of daily medical decisions. Medical decision-making under uncertainty is susceptible to cognitive biases which can lead to systematic errors of reasoning and suboptimal patient care” Raza et al (2024).
ICU integrated management model improves medication safety – Full Text
“The Integrated Management Model of Doctor-Nurse-Pharmacist Collaboration significantly reduced the incidence of catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI), drug incompatibility, and other intravenous therapy-related complications, thereby enhancing the safety of intravenous therapy in critically ill patients” Gao et al (2024).
Impact of Buzzy Bee device on pain perception – Full Text
“The main objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Buzzy Bee device on pain perception among children undergoing invasive needle pricks as part of their treatment” Al Battashi et al (2024).
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Improving neonatal central venous catheter safety – Full Text
“This quality improvement project was initiated after two episodes of cardiac tamponade occurred in infants in a tertiary neonatal unit. The investigation highlighted that they were caused by malpositioned CVCs” Pappa et al (2024).
CLABSI risk in patients with COVID-19 – Full Text
“To investigate the association between central line-associated bloodstream infections and clinical and care variables of intensive care unit patients with COVID-19 hospitalized at a reference public health institution” Acosta et al (2024).
Management of persistent withdrawal occlusion in venous ports – Full Text
“We created a method for resolving PWO using MD +/- application of thrombolytics with 97.4% success rate. Current evidence showed that FS is not likely to be affected by thrombolytic drugs; however, we have ascertained an effect of these drugs, proposing a hypothesis of microthrombotic events at the tip of the catheter if fibroblastic sleeve is present” Maňásek et al (2024).
Ultrasound guided central venous catheter tip location check – Full Text
“This study confirms the feasibility of a new ultrasound method to ensure the correct CVC tip position. This protocol could potentially become a standard method reducing costs, post-procedural irradiation, and time of CVC placement in emergency” Volpicelli et al (2024).
PICC-related thrombosis in patients with liver cancer – Full Text
“Age, KPS score, parenteral nutrition, TNM staging, distant metastasis, bone marrow suppression, and activities of daily living impairment are independent risk factors for PICC-related thrombosis in hospitalized patients with liver cancer, while catheter duration is a protective factor for the disease” Chen et al (2024).
Risk of extravasation associated with peripheral vasopressors – Full Text
“We discuss the guidelines and data for optimal dose, duration, intravenous line (IV) size, IV location, and nursing IV site monitoring for peripheral vasopressors. We then explore adverse events associated with peripheral vasopressors. Finally, we describe how this practice change may impact hospital medicine providers” Kalinoski et al (2024).
Central venous catheter-related thrombosis in critically ill patients – Full Text
“Almost all CVCs in the internal jugular vein in critically ill surgical patients developed an asymptomatic CRT in the first days after catheterization” Gibb et al (2024).
Neontatal central venous access device tip location
“Intracavitary electrocardiography and real time ultrasound can both be applied in the neonatal setting, but they offer different advantages or disadvantages depending on the type of central venous access device” Natile et al (2024).
Peripheral arterial catheters in extremely preterm infants
“Peripheral artery catheters can be used for continuous blood pressure measurement and blood draw even in extremely preterm infants” Bruckner et al (2024).
CLABSI reduction with a multipronged nurse-driven approach – Full Text
“Central catheter dressing assessment, intervention, and education help reduce CLABSIs. Central catheter rounds are an important adjunct to the CLABSI bundle. A central catheter dressing management algorithm helps nurses decide when to change a dressing and which type of dressing to use” Hoke et al (2024).
Internal jugular vein diameter deformation rate during puncture
“The deformation rate of the IJV wall was smaller in the 3D needle group than in the usual needle group. The use of a 3D needle would be safer when puncturing the IJV” Hashimoto et al (2024).
Hospital-associated infection cost analysis
“HAIs acquired in the ICU are associated with higher ICU costs. These findings were consistent across specific types of infection” Bezerra et al (2024).
CLABSI prevention in the Intensive Care Unit
“We observed a reduced knowledge of the guidelines for the prevention of CLABSI despite the attitudes and practices of the nurses being satisfactory. In addition to implementing training, strategies for disseminating guidelines should be adopted” Muschitiello et al (2024).
Predicting PICC-related deep vein thrombosis
“This study aims to use patient feature and catheterization technology feature variables to train the corresponding machine learning (ML) models to predict peripherally inserted central catheters-deep vein thrombosis (PICCs-DVT) and analyze the importance of the two types of features to PICCs-DVT from the aspect of “input-output” correlation” Sheng and Gao (2024).
Central line insertion training facilitated by a CVC team – Full Text
“Integrating the training provided by a specialized team with an interactive response system enhanced the knowledge and competency level in CVC insertion among medical students in this study” Tsai et al (2024).
Effect of the Veinlite PEDI2 and distraction on peripheral catheter insertion-related emotional behavior
“This study aimed to evaluate the effect of a Veinlite PEDI2 and passive VR distraction on the first attempt at PIC insertion success, duration of insertion, emotional behavior, pain, fear, and anxiety associated with PIC insertion in children aged 4-10 years in the pediatric emergency department” Can and Özalp Gerçeker (2024).
Exercise to prevent femoral PICC-related thrombosis
“The maximum angle ankle pump exercise mode can reduce the incidence of catheter-related thrombosis and unplanned catheter removal in patients with lung cancer with PICC catheterization through femoral vein, increase catheter retention time, but it can easily cause patient fatigue” Liao and Wu (2024).
Implantable port catheter fragment lodged in pulmonary artery – Full Text
“Although essential for frequent chemotherapy and other treatments, ports can lead to complications such as infection and thrombosis. This article discusses a rare but serious complication: the displacement of a catheter fragment” Kordykiewicz et al (2024).
Nursing management of chemotherapy extravasation – Full Text
“Adequate knowledge of chemotherapy treatment and the risk factors of extravasation are basic elements for the prevention of this type of injury, as well as for the improvement of the quality of life of patients under this kind of intravenous therapy” Antúnez-Blancat et al (2024).
Tunneled CVC and early bacteremia in oncological pediatric patients – Full Text
“Our objective was to assess risk factors of ITCVC-related early bacteremia in oncological pediatric patients and to determine the need for preoperative prophylaxis” Planas Díaz et al (2024).
Blood gas analysis in prehospital emergency medicine – Full Text
“We aimed to provide a comprehensive summary of the current literature on prehospital BGA, including its indications, methods, and feasibility” Rief et al (2024).
Anatomical variation in the internal jugular vein – Full Text
“CVC is widely used in the emergency department and intensive care units. It is typically performed by inserting a catheter through the internal jugular vein (IJV) into the superior vena cava near the right atrium” Shan et al (2024).
Integrating virtual reality simulation into the CVC placement training
“This study underscores the potential of VR simulation as a complementary training tool for CVC placement rather than a substitution of standard manikin training” Savir et al (2024).
Oncology pharmacy staffing survey
“Oncology pharmacy operations and staffing models are unique to each pharmacy and practice setting. The results of the pharmacy staffing model survey provide an insight into operations across the country and highlight a need for staffing model benchmarking and metrics” Wechter et al (2024).
Strategies that influence the selection of PICC material and design – Full Text
“To explore the implementation contexts and strategies that influence the uptake and selection of alternative peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) materials and design” August et al (2024).
CVC-associated venous thromboembolism in children
“Our objective was to study the proportion of children developing Catheter-related thrombosis (CRT) following central venous Catheter (CVC) insertion and the risk factors of CRT in pediatric patients with CVC” Narayan et al (2024).
National Association of Neonatal Nurses PICC guidelines
“The NANN PICC Guideline has served as a respected resource for vascular access protocol development in neonatal intensive care units around the world. This most recent edition continues as the foundational resource for protocols, policies, and procedures development for nurses and other clinicians inserting PICCs and managing neonates and infants with PICCs around the world” Sharpe et al (2024).
Implantable port flip rate in children – Full Text
“The CVP inversion rate was 4.6% (n = 7/153), equivalent to 0.08 × 1,000 catheter-days. The inversion rate was significantly higher in the younger group (under two years old, 11.2%) than in the older group (≥two years old, 1.0%) according to the univariate analysis (p = 0.00576)” Koretsune et al (2024).
Dwell time for peripheral IV catheters – Full Text
“Up to 1/5 of peripheral intravenous catheters are lost within the first 24 h after their insertion, with most of them placed suboptimally. A properly functioning PIVC appears to be crucial for antimicrobial treatment” Piekiełko et al (2024).
Central venous catheter insertion and management audit results – Full Text
“To assess the compliance with French guidelines for the prevention of central venous catheter (CVC)-related infections in two university hospitals” Khanafer et al (2024).