The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services offers complimentary checklists to evaluate healthcare providers’ performance on indwelling catheter insertion. The checklists assess critical ...

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 ...

DefenCath is intended for instillation into central venous catheters only. DefenCath ® (taurolidine and heparin) catheter lock solution is now available for inpatient use to reduce the incidence of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 73-year-old male (weight, 91.2 kg; height, 167.6 cm) with a medical history of diabetes mellitus, congestive ...

In new survey, 68% of clinicians reported frequent incidents of catheter dislodgement. Dislodgement of venous access devices such as catheters is widespread and underreported, a survey of 1,500 ...

One of the main problems in interpreting the literature concerning infectious complications of CVCs is the inconsistent use of terms and definitions. Furthermore, it is often unclear exactly how the ...