Children's veins are small and sometimes difficult to access during necessary medical treatment. When caregivers used ultrasound to guide placement of intravenous (IV) lines in children with presumed ...

Arterial catheterization allows for the continuous recording of arterial pressure measurements and can be used to adjust the doses of vasoactive drugs that are administered for hemodynamic support in ...

The following text provides a summary of the teaching points that appear in the video. Placement of peripheral intravenous (IV) catheters is a fundamental skill that all health care professionals ...

April 27, 2012 (Phoenix, Arizona) — The rate of inappropriately placed central venous catheters (CVCs) substantially declines when residents and emergency department (ED) technicians are trained to ...

Ultrasound guidance of central line placement allowed access with fewer attempts than using only anatomic landmarks, according to a prospective, randomized study published online March 12 in the ...

The placement of a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) routinely incorporates tip position confirmation using standard radiographs. In this study, we sought to determine whether real-time ...

Central venous catheters (CVCs) are critical components in modern clinical practice, providing essential vascular access for fluid administration, medication delivery, and haemodynamic monitoring in ...

Patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis catheter placement via fluoroscopy and ultrasound-guidance experienced significantly fewer complications at 1 year post-insertion than did patients whose ...

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 ...