Intravenous Catheter
Varied flushing frequency and volume to prevent peripheral intravenous catheter failure: a pilot, factorial randomised controlled trial in adult medical surgical hospital patients
... Larger, definitive trials of flushing volume and flushing frequency of peripheral intravenous catheter manage- ment are feasible and required. Neither increased flush- ing volume nor frequency significantly ...
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Effect of In-service Training Program on Minimizing Nursing Intravenous Medication Process Errors by Syringe Through Intravenous Catheter
... nursing intravenous medication process errors by syringe through intravenous ...for intravenous medication process, and in-service training ...to intravenous medication ...nursing ...
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Expert versus generalist inserters for peripheral intravenous catheter insertion: a pilot randomised controlled trial
... More than a quarter of patients allocated to the gener- alist group in our trial did not receive a PVC, compared to 100% placement by the VAS group. The purpose of placing a PVC is to start or continue treatment, and ...
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Prospective study of incidence and predictors of peripheral intravenous catheter-induced complications
... Results: During the study period, 359 adults were included, mounting to 842 PIVCs and 2,505 catheter days. The majority of patients, 276 (76.9%), had medical, chief admission complaints, whereas 83 (23.1%) were ...
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Inhibition of bacterial attachment and biofilm formation by a novel intravenous catheter material using an in vitro percutaneous catheter insertion model
... intravascular catheter materials with respect to bacterial attachment and biofilm ...the catheter surface (living and dead) were imaged without mechanical ...
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Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Complications in Critically Ill Children: A Prospective Study
... length of time in the pediatric intensive care unit prior to catheter placement were all risk factors for phlebitis in this and other studies.’3”4 Establishing and securing peripheral in[r] ...
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A Comparison of Buffered Lidocaine Versus ELA-Max Before Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Insertions in Children
... ABSTRACT. Background. Peripheral intravenous cath- eter (PIV) insertion is a common, painful experience for many children in the pediatric emergency department. Although local anesthetics such as injected buffered ...
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Intravenous Catheter Blood Cultures: Utility and Contamination
... IV catheter just before antibiotic administration or patient discharge from the ...IV catheter hub or T connector was cleaned with povidone-iodine and isopropyl alco- ...
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Comparison of Dwell Times of Two Commonly Placed Peripheral Intravenous Catheters: Traditional vs Ultrasound Guided
... Abstract Introduction: Because establishing venous access in patients can be difficult and time consuming, the use of ultrasound to guide the insertion of peripheral intravenous catheter[r] ...
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Scanning and transmission electron microscopy of in situ bacterial colonization of intravenous and intraarterial catheters
... Scanning electron micrograph of the inner surface of a Jelco intravenous catheter from which Corynebacterium species was isolated in culture; note the particulate matter on the surface..[r] ...
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... Materials and Methods: We conducted this study to estimate the rate of nosocomial infections in the Intensive care unit (ICU) of a tertiary care hospital from coastal Karnataka, South India. The patients who developed ...
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A clinical pathway for the management of difficult venous access
... peripheral intravenous catheter under ultrasound ...peripheral intravenous catheter insertion by the after-hours clinical support team for patients with difficult venous access has been ...
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Factors influencing linezolid-nonsusceptible coagulase-negative staphylococci dissemination among patients in the intensive care unit: a retrospective cohort study
... with intravenous catheter tip or blood cultures positive for linezolid-susceptible CNS (MIC ≤ 1 mg/l) and patients with no CNS isolation served as group 3 ...infection, catheter-related or not, was ...
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Pediatric Procedures: Do Parents Want to Watch?
... Although we did not actually observe children hay- ing blood drawn or an intravenous catheter in- serted, it is our experience that many children are calmed by the presence of a parent, [r] ...
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<p>Risk factors for delirium: are therapeutic interventions part of it?</p>
... deep intravenous catheter, drainage tube, arterial line, gastric tube, urinary catheter, use of vasoactive drugs, and sedative medication on the develop- ment of ...
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Original Article Does droperidol have a good effect of preventing morphine-induced pruritus in adults? A meta-analysis
... Five hundred and fifty patients were included in this subgroup analysis. There was no statisti- cally significant within it [RR=0.81, 95% CI (0.63, 1.03)]. It showed that intravenous admin- istration of droperidol ...
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Rationale and design of the HEALTHY-CATH trial: A randomised controlled trial of Heparin versus EthAnol Lock THerapY for the prevention of Catheter Associated infecTion in Haemodialysis patients
... Blood stream infections can result from extraluminal (exit site or tunnel infections) or intraluminal infection of the catheter [20]. Strategies for preventing CRBs have gener- ally focused on cutaneous ...
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Staphylococcus aureus Prostatic abscess: a clinical case report and a review of the literature
... PNG 447 kb Abbreviations BPH: Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy; CT: Computed Tomography; HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus; IDC: Indwelling catheter; IV: Intravenous; MRSA: Methicillin Resis[r] ...
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<p>Clinical Characteristics And Risk Factors In Mixed-Enterococcal Bloodstream Infections</p>
... The demographic characteristics of these patients are sum- marized in Table 1. The median age was 63 years (IQR, 50,72), and 71% (320/451) of them were male. Solid tumor was the most common comorbidity (23.3%), fol- ...
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An experimental in-vivo canine model for adult shunt infection
... tion [19,20]. However, there is another possible explanation: S. epidermidis infections are a challenge to diagnose and treat, in part because of the ability of most strains to grow inside shunts as biofilms [21,22]. ...
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