Vascular access for helicopter emergency medical services – Full Text
“In 2019, a dedicated programme was started at East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) to enable the safe introduction of contemporary emergency vascular access devices, in order to improve physiological monitoring intra-arrest and deliver nuanced, goal-directed resuscitation in OHCA patients” Aziz et al (2024).
Neonatal arterial cannulation for hemodynamic monitoring – Full Text
“This will be the first randomized controlled trial evaluating the use of topical glyceryl trinitrate to facilitate peripheral artery cannulation in neonates” Wagh et al (2024).
Pediatric CRBSI IV lock options – Full Text
“The aim of this study was to present 3 years of H.Huntiense data, antibiotic susceptibility profiles, systemic antibiotics and antibiotic lock therapy (ALT) options and clinical outcomes” Özen et al (2024).
Blood sample contamination with intravenous fluids
“This study aimed to determine detection criteria using commonly ordered tests to identify IV fluid contamination and validate the use of these criteria” Newbigging et al (2024).
Intraosseous and intravenous access comparison
“Increasing evidence supports intraosseous (IO) access due to faster medication administration and higher first-attempt success rates compared to intravenous (IV) access. However, the impact on patient outcomes has been inconclusive” Lee et al (2024).
Impact of stopcock position on syringe pump start-up time – Full Text
“The purpose of this in vitro study was to evaluate the impact of the vertical level of the stopcock connecting the infusion line to the central venous catheter on start-up fluid delivery in microinfusions” Weiss et al (2024).
Reducing pain during arteriovenous fistula puncture
“The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of pre-puncture application of an ice pack, EMLA cream, or lidocaine spray to reduce pain associated with access puncture” Al-Jubouri et al (2024).
Bedside tunneled central venous catheter placement
“To determine if TDCs and other tunneled central venous catheters (tCVC) can be placed safely using anatomical landmark techniques without the use of fluoroscopy” Sawaf et al (2024).
Dacron-cuff catheter related infection – Full Text
“The main risk factors for a Dacron-cuffed CRI in hemodialysis were combined with diabetes, hemoglobin level, age, catheter indwelling time, serum albumin level, femoral vein catheter indwelling and catheterization times” Chen et al (2024).
Needlestick injury awareness and prevention – Full Text
“Therefore, we did a descriptive cross-sectional study involving healthcare workers in a tertiary care hospital to find the level of awareness, perception, and practice associated with needle stick injury and its prevention” Anandadurai et al (2024).
CVC-related complications in pediatric patients – Full Text
“Central venous catheter (CVC)-related complications remain a significant cause of morbidity in pediatric hematology-oncology. We prospectively surveyed the incidence of CVC-related complications in children with hematologic-oncologic diseases” Garonzi et al (2024).
Blood cultures and time to positivity in children – Full Text
“An audit of positive blood cultures from the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) from November 1, 2019, to October 31, 2020, was performed to determine TTP, defined as the start of incubation to a positive signal from automated incubators” Yeung et al (2024).
Peripheral IV catheter complications in cats – Full Text
“These results suggest that smaller-gauge (22-gauge) PIVCs and greater body weights are associated with an increased risk of complications in cats hospitalized in the CCU. When possible, a larger-gauge (20-gauge) PIVC should be placed in cats admitted to the CCU” Granger et al (2024).
Peripheral intravenous catheter infection prevention – Full Text
“Despite their frequent use and concern about PIVC-associated complications, this review underscores the urgent need for more high-quality studies on effective IPC methods regarding safe PIVC management” Dobrescu et al (2024).
Peripheral IV cannulation standards in a teaching hospital – Full Text
“This study investigated the procedure and results of peripheral venous cannulation in a teaching center using a prospectively completed audit loop study. The “Royal College of Nursing’s criteria for infusion therapy” is one such set of recommendations” Lissy Ben et al (2024).
CRBSI central catheter salvage – Full Text
“Catheter salvage in S aureus CRBSIs in children receiving HPN can be attempted after careful consideration by a multidisciplinary team in an HPN expertise center” Demirok et al (2024).
Surveillance of catheter-associated bloodstream infections – Full Text
“A fully automated algorithm for CRBSI and CLABSI detection in critically-ill patients using only structured data provided valid results” Catho et al (2024).
Pseudomonas fluorescens CRBSI outbreak – Full Text
“This outbreak led to six episodes of catheter related bloodstream infection (CRBSI) in patients with hematologic malignancies, delaying their primary treatment” Volkow et al (2024).
Impact of tissue adhesive on PIVC failure
‘In this study, PIVCs secured with integrated securement dressings and tissue adhesive, in comparison with standard care, bordered polyurethane dressings, were associated with significantly reduced PIVC failure, for children admitted to hospital via the emergency department” Charters ET AL (2024).
Self-administered outpatient parenteral antimicrobial treatment
“As OPAT services expand their inclusion criteria to include complex patient populations, there is an increased need for selecting appropriate patients to receive either healthcare-administered OPAT (H-OPAT) or self-administered OPAT (S-OPAT)” Brand et al (2024).
Persistent left superior vena cava diagnosed by ECG – Full Text
“The finding of a distinctively dilated coronary sinus in echocardiography led us to further investigation using agitated saline that revealed an infrequent anomaly termed isolated PLSVC” Smolarek et al (2024).
Inotropic support in palliative patients with advanced heart failure
“The use of continuous intravenous inotropic support (CIIS) as palliative therapy in patients with advanced heart failure (HF) has increased over the past decade” Maini et al (2024).
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Economic comparison of OPAT antimicrobial stewardship – Full Text
“The application of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) principles may entail increased cost to allow for narrower-spectrum therapy. Prescribing benzylpenicillin (BP) and ceftriaxone (CRO) for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) demonstrates the complex challenge of this principle” Kalatharan et al (2023).
Vascular access for CAR T cell therapy – Full Text
“Based on current clinical practice, mediports are a commonly utilized form of access for CAR T cell therapy administration. These findings support the safe practice of mediport usage as an accepted standard line option for CAR T cell infusion” Eylon et al (2023).
GAVeCeLT bundle for PICC-port insertion
“This paper describes an insertion bundle-developed by GAVeCeLT, the Italian Group of Long Term Venous Access Devices, and nicknamed “SIP-Port” (Safe Insertion of PICC-Ports)-which consists of few evidence-based strategies aiming to further minimize all immediate, early, or late complications potentially associated with PICC-port insertion” Brescia et al (2023).
IV fluid administration in pediatric patients
“For pediatric patients, the demand for quality and safe Intravenous Fluid (IVF) therapy is huge. This is because, compared to adults, children have a lower tolerance for IVF therapy errors and present devastating physiological responses to errors” Grace and Efua (2023).
Needlestick injury remains a risk – Full Text
“The present study found that 8.6% of healthcare workers sustained a needle stick and sharps injuries incident in the past year” Mohamud et al (2023).
Ultrasound curriculum for surgical critical care fellows
“All fellows exhibited significant improvement in skill and comfort with point of care ultrasound after this rotation. This is the first study to describe a dedicated ultrasound curriculum for surgical critical care with significant skill acquisition” Jalilvand et al (2023).
IV antibiotic administration and rate of antimicrobial resistance
“We examined the difference between these 2 metrics of inpatient intravenous antimicrobial consumption in assessing antimicrobial stewardship efficacy and antimicrobial resistance using vector autoregressive (VAR) models with time-series analysis” Murakami et al (2023).
Disposable elastomeric infusion pump for OPAT
“Our findings suggest that elastomeric infusion pumps are safe and effective for administering selected antimicrobial agents in OPAT” Durojaiye et al (2023).
Student nurse confidence in learning PIVC insertion
“The Nursing Student PIVC Insertion Self-Confidence Scale is a valid and reliable scale to measure nursing students’ confidence in learning about and performing PIVC insertions” Marchionni et al (2023).
Dialysis catheter misplaced into subclavian artery – Full Text
“In this article, we report the case of a middle-aged female patient with uraemia wherein a temporal HDC was misplaced into the right subclavian artery during right internal jugular vein catheterization” Li and Guo (2023).
Blood sample collection in school age children
“It was found that children who were treated with dry heat and dry cold before blood sampling experienced less pain. The anxiety of the children in the dry heat treatment group was lower than the control group” Cil and Fidanci (2023).
Arterial catheterisation in great apes
“Arterial catheterization in great apes can be achieved through palpation-guided or ultrasound-guided placement with or without a modified Seldinger technique” Parkinson et al (2023).
Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy review – Full Text
“OPAT enables better patient-centred healthcare close to home. The length of hospital stay can be reduced and adverse events due to prolonged hospitalisation can be avoided” Kilinc et al (2023)
Nurse management of noradrenaline infusions – Full Text
“The aim was to examine how nurses used blood pressure targets when escalating, weaning, and titrating noradrenaline in intensive care patients admitted for haemodynamic management and explore patient blood pressure responses to changes in noradrenaline doses” Hunter et al (2023).
Central venous catheters in infants scoping review – Full Text
“To summarise and critique existing knowledge and evidence relating to the utility, and post-insertion complications surrounding tunnelled non-cuffed central venous catheters (tncCVCs) in infants” Dean et al (2023).
Distraction during venous blood sampling – Full Text
“The aim of this review is to evaluate the effectiveness of active compared with passive distraction-based interventions in relieving anxiety, fear, and pain in hospitalized preschool and school-age children during venous blood sampling” Huhtala et al (2023).
Rapid identification of microorganisms from positive blood cultures – Full Text
“We aimed to compare the time to optimal antimicrobial therapy (OAT) for the BF-FA-BCIP vs. standard culture-based identification” Agnetti et al (2023).
Review of the overuse of intravenous medicine – Full Text
“Intravenous medicines are associated with a higher rate of bloodstream and catheter related infections, require more nursing resources to administer, and are less comfortable for patients than oral equivalents” Eii et al (2023).
Unplanned PICC removal – Full Text
“In this study, peripherally inserted central catheters with a proximal valve had a higher risk of unplanned removals, especially in patients without cancer. The peripherally inserted central catheter type should be considered in advance, and clinical staff should take appropriate measures to prevent unplanned removals after insertion” Yu et al (2023).
Brachiocephalic vein central venous access – Full Text
“This literature review examines the feasibility of direct puncture and cannulation of the brachiocephalic veins (BCVs) for intravenous access in shocked adult trauma patients” Green et al (2023).
Ultrasound-guided tunneled hemodialysis catheters – Full Text
“Radiographic fluoroscopy requires structural and personnel infrastructure and exposes the patient to ionizing radiation. Here, we investigate the feasibility of solely ultrasound-guided placement of tunneled central venous dialysis catheters (USCVCs)” Kächele et al (2023).
Needlestick prevention among newly recruited nurses – Full Text
“The group’s ability to improve occupational protective behaviors may be positively impacted through increased adaptability, improved sleep, active participation in nursing skill-based competitions, strengthening guidance and education on occupational protection” Xu et al (2023).
OPAT implementation bundle
“Within a Belgian, single, large community-based hospital, a multimodal intervention bundle resulted in increases in OPAT implementation, infection complexity, and required treatment durations without statistically significant differences in outcomes” Missiaen et al (2023).
Intravenous injection virtual reality simulator
“The virtual reality program for intravenous injection administration can be an effective education tool, fostering students’ motivation to learn and a heightened sense of accomplishment” Chang et al (2023).
Inadvertent guidewire insertion into the vertebral vein – Full Text
“During central venous catheterization using the anatomic landmark technique to target the internal jugular vein, a guidewire is inadvertently inserted into the suspected vertebral vein” Lee et al (2023).
Neonatal adverse drug reactions
“Neonates hospitalized in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) commonly experience Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR). Thus, we aimed to develop and validate a tool for predicting ADRs in neonates hospitalized in NICUs” Duarte Leopoldino et al (2023).
Tibial or humeral intraosseous vascular access
“We did not detect an association between the first-attempted intra-arrest IO site (tibia vs. humerus) and clinical outcomes. Clinical trials are warranted to test differences between vascular access strategies” Brebner et al (2023).
CRBSI prevention e-learning platform – Full Text
“This study aims to assess intensive care unit (ICU) nurses’ and physicians’ knowledge regarding the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for preventing CVC-related infections before and after an interactive distance education delivered through the e-learning platform Teleprometheus” Foka et al (2023).
PICC associated brachiocephalic vein rupture – Full Text
“We present a rare case of large bilateral pleural effusion, pericardial effusion and pneumomediastinum caused by a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) line rupturing the left brachiocephalic vein, causing severe respiratory failure” Andrade Soares Ribeiro de Campos (2023).
OPAT osteomyelitis treatment – Full Text
“He was successfully treated with surgical debridement combined with the administration of teicoplanin plus rifampicin in the outpatient setting, completing, in total, a twelve-week course of antibiotic therapy” Papaetis et al (2023).