Preventing implantable port complications – Full Text
“Standardized operative and perioperative TIVAP implantation procedures provide excellent results and low explantation rate” Thiel et al (2022).
Sharp injury prevention in Italy – Full Text
“Sharp injuries, determining the risk of bloodborne infections and psychological distress in healthcare workers, may be prevented by a set of strategies, legally enforced in Europe through the Directive 2010/32/EU” De Carli et al (2022).
Inadvertent carotid artery cannulation – Full Text
“Arterial puncture with a small “finder” needle is usually benign and occurs in up to 11% of cases of IJV cannulation” Arora and Lee (2022).
Point-of-care ultrasound training – Full Text
“POCUS education is present in Italian anaesthesia and critical care residency programs, although with potential for improvement. Significant discrepancies between residents’ and directors’ perspectives were identified” Mongodi et al (2022).
Blood culture incubation system review – Full Text
“We report the first clinical diagnostic study of this scale in a “real-world” setting with a crossover design, comparing two automatic blood culture incubators using samples from patients with a suspected diagnosis of bacteremia/sepsis, as opposed to spiked vials” Halperin et al (2022).
Extravasation severity prediction
“These findings proposed a novel and feasible DNN approach for screening extravasation from skin images” Munthuli et al (2022).
Predictive model for PICC-related thrombosis
“Artificial neural network model can effectively predict peripherally inserted central catheter-related thrombosis in breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy” Fu et al (2022).
Hub disinfection compliance – Full Text
“To describe the compliance to the practices of hand hygiene and hub disinfection before manipulation of the central venous catheter in two moments: before and after educational intervention” Lobo et al (2022).
Preventing neonatal peripheral IV insertion pain
“Kangaroo care, fetal position and swaddling methods can be used in clinical practice in order to reduce the pain level and increase the comfort level during and after peripheral vascular access in prematures” Çiftci et al (2022).
3D printed intraosseous line placement trainer
“After a task trainer has been used to practice a procedure, such as intraosseous line placement, the tissue media, molds, and bones are reclaimable and may be reused to create a fresh task trainer, free of puncture sites and manipulation defects, for use in subsequent training sessions” Markin et al (2022).
Peripheral intravenous catheterisation pack – Full Text
“The developed pack appears to be a promising device that can assist healthcare professionals in providing efficient and safe care to patients requiring a PIVC” Santos-Costa et al (2022).
Tunneled hemodialysis catheter dysfunction – Full Text
“Female and hypertensive patients are considerably at higher risk of catheter thrombosis, whereas diabetes is the most critical risk factor for infectious catheter dysfunction” Mohazzab et al (2022).
Implantable port CLABSI risk factors – Full Text
“TIVAD infection may be related to thrombocytopenia at the time of device insertion. Further studies are needed to identify preventive factors against TIVAD infections in children with cancer” Lee and Choi (2022).
Accidental cannulation of the carotid artery – Full Text
“This report is the first documented intraoperative ultrasound video demonstrating accidental and simultaneous common carotid artery and internal jugular cannulation during central line placement in the internal jugular vein” Mittal et al (2022).
Homemade ultrasound peripheral IV training phantom – Full Text
“Homemade ultrasound phantoms are cost effective, increase confidence, and improve emergency medicine residents’ ability to perform ultrasound-guided vein cannulation” Sabak et al (2022).
Detecting early extravasation
“Here, an ultrathin bioimpedance microsensor array that can be integrated on intravenous needles for early and sensitive detection of extravasation is reported” Lin et al (2022).
Antibiotic resistance and CRBSI
“This study was designed to detect the prevalence of antibiotic and antiseptic resistance genes, mecA and qacA/B in coagulase negative Staphylococcus (CoNS) species isolated from intensive care unit patients with catheter related blood stream infections (CRBSI) or colonized central venous catheters (CVC)” Medis et al (2022).
Neonatal intraosseous acyclovir infusion – Full Text
“We present the case of a 2-week-old neonate, admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) due to suspected meningitis, who received acyclovir through IO infusion after the venous access was lost and a new one could not be established” De Marca et al (2022).
Bedside tunneled femoral CVC in infants
“We show that US-guided durable tunneled femoral central venous catheter (TF-CVC) insertion by an intensivist at the bedside is a technically feasible and safe prolonged central venous access option in critically ill, high-risk infants and neonates in the PCICU” Shostak et al (2022).
Implantable port catheter fracture
“Although the internal jugular vein approach was selected to prevent fractures caused by pinch-off syndrome, catheter fracture occurred in 8 patients(1.9%)” Hasegawa et al (2022).
Long peripheral cannula in COVID-19 patients
“The ultrasound-guided implantation of an 18G LPC in COVID19 patients, regardless of the state of their venous heritage, would seem to be an excellent strategy for these patients, reducing the number of venipunctures and CVC implantation, as well as allowing multiple and high pressure (contrast) infusions” Gilardi et al (2022).
Retrieval of embolised fractured PICC
“Here, we describe a case of transcatheter retrieval of an embolised peripherally inserted central catheter line in the right ventricle extending to the left pulmonary artery in a preterm very low birth weight baby” Bishnoi et al (2022).
Implantable port complications in oncology patients – Full Text
“Placement of ports via the internal jugular vein under ultrasound and fluoroscopy guidance is a safe procedure, with low rates of early and late complications” Kartsouni et al (2022).
CVC insertion predicts transfusion requirements
“Findings from this study suggest that DLT blood loss contributes to anemia in the SICU, and that the presence and duration of CVC leads to increased testing, anemia, and RBC transfusion” Adkins et al (2022).
Accidental dialysis catheter removal
“The present findings suggest that to prevent accidental removal, sufficient attention should be paid to delirium that occurs after admission as well to pre-existing dementia at the time of admission” Kojima et al (2022).
Taurolidine IV lock in home parenteral nutrition patients – Full Text
“In this study, use of taurolidine as CLS was generally safe. Most reported AEs were vascular access device-related, and the majority of symptoms concerned pain” Korzilius et al (2022).
Central venous catheterization training with smart glasses – Full Text
“Smart glasses act as a suitable simulation tool for endotracheal intubation and central venous catheterization procedures training in medical students” Lin et al (2022).
Bleeding after central venous catheter placement – Full Text
“Achieving adequate hemostasis after removing the catheter was difficult, and a hematoma formed after the placement of an infraclavicular axillary venous catheter under ultrasound guidance” Noguchi et al (2022).
Sedation during implantable port placement – Full Text
“Compared to general anesthesia with endotracheal intubation, procedural sedation using propofol and S(+)-ketamine improves the postoperative emergence agitation right after the recovery of consciousness, and has advantage in shortening anesthetic recovery time for pediatric patients undergoing TIVAP implantation” Zhang et al (2022).
Inadvertent vertebral vein cannulation – Full Text
“Inadvertently mispositioned catheter emphasizes the significance of ultrasound-guided central vein catheterization even if the cannulation is done using standard anatomical landmarks” Vadi (2022).