ORLANDO, Fla.—In patients selected for placement of a tunneled dialysis catheter (TDC), right internal jugular vein placement should be used preferentially to maximize catheter survival, according to ...
(HealthDay News) — For patients in intensive care units who need a catheter, placement in the subclavian vein appears to lower the risk of bloodstream infection and deep-vein thrombosis, compared to ...
Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2013;14(3):273-283. Ultrasonography may be used to supplement the landmark method. [53] Three different techniques have been described. The real-time two-dimensional ultrasound ...
Peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC) are a type of deep venipuncture, for which the catheter tip malposition rate is high. To examine the feasibility of preventing catheter tip malposition ...
For critically ill patients requiring dialysis, insertion of the catheter in a vein in the neck does not appear to reduce the risk of infection compared to vein access in the upper leg, except for ...
Spontaneous migration of an implanted central venous access device into the ipsilateral jugular vein
A 46-year-old man with sickle cell disease was assessed in our outpatient clinic for right neck pain. To facilitate venous access for manual exchange transfusions and iron chelation therapy, a central ...
Ultrasound-guided central venous catheterisation is easier, quicker and safer than the traditional method using landmarks, and should be the method of choice when treating critical care patients. In ...
The optimal location for central venous catheter (CVC) placement remains a contentious debate, despite years of use and thousands of published reports. This study was designed to randomly assign adult ...
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