New review offers guidance for managing recurrent bloodstream infections in patients with long-term catheters

Patients who depend on long-term intravenous catheters for chemotherapy, hemodialysis, intravenous nutrition and other ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Early catheter removal improves survival among bloodstream infection patients

A study published in the Journal of Hospital Infection examined the effects of delayed central venous catheter removal on outcomes in patients with Gram-negative catheter-related bloodstream ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Atraumatic, Nonsurgical Technic for Removal of Broken Catheters from Cardiac Cavities

THE complications of indwelling intravenous polyethylene catheters for monitoring of central venous pressure and for therapeutic infusions are well known. One of these, embolization of a severed ...
BIOENGINEER

Arm-inserted catheters may outperform neck catheters for leukemia chemotherapy support

A retrospective Munich study of 116 AML patients found arm-inserted PICCs stayed in place longer and caused fewer exit site ...
HealthLeaders Media

Early Removal of Pediatric Catheters Key to Infection Prevention

Hospitals can reduce life-threatening bloodstream infections in children with peripherally inserted central venous catheters by removing the devices as early as possible, according to a Johns Hopkins ...
BIOENGINEER

Femoral Catheters Offer Cancer Patients a Safer Vein Access Route, Study Finds

A prospective cohort study of 89 cancer patients with superior vena cava syndrome found that tunneled femoral central catheters show low infection and thrombosis rates but a high 23.6 percent ...