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Hematologic Patients' Clinical and Psychosocial Experiences with Implanted Long-term Central Venous Catheter: Self-management versus Professionally Controlled Care

Background: A significant decrease in catheter-related infections was demonstrated in our earlier randomized controlled trial of central venous catheter (CVC) care in hematologic patients. Objective: ...
Medscape

Central Venous Catheter Use in the Pediatric Patient: Mechanical and Infectious Complications

A major difference between children and adults is that in pediatric patients, age and, particularly, weight and length of the patient are decisive factors determining the choice of CVC type and ...
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Long-Term Central Venous Catheter Use and Risk of Infection in Older Adults With Cancer

Predictive Value of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer/American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Classification of Lung Adenocarcinoma in Tumor Recurrence and ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Pulmonary-Artery versus Central Venous Catheter to Guide Treatment of Acute Lung Injury

We evaluated the relationship of benefits and risks of PACs in 1000 patients with established acute lung injury in a randomized trial comparing hemodynamic management guided by a PAC with hemodynamic ...
Nature

Ultrasound-guided central venous catheter placement increases success rates in pediatric patients: a meta-analysis

Real-time ultrasound (US) guidance for central venous catheter (CVC) insertion has been shown to increase cannulation success rates and reduce complications in adults. Literature regarding US-guided ...
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Central venous catheter practice patterns for dialysis access vary by patient sex, race

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Using data from the US Renal Data System, researchers identified 74,194 Medicare-eligible patients who initiated ...