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CLABSI surveillance in home infusion therapy

“Building home infusion CLABSI surveillance programs will require support from home infusion leadership” Hannum et al (2022).

Ketamine extravasation management

“Given limited data on subcutaneous ketamine pharmacokinetics, the aim of this case report is to present the observed absorption of subcutaneous ketamine due to extravasation of PIV during a pediatric procedural sedation” smith et al (2022).

Port implantation in Ghana – Full Text

“Totally Implantable Vascular Access Device (TIVAD) is a type of central venous access that utilizes the central veins; the internal jugular vein, the subclavian or the femoral veins” Okyere et al (2022).

Extended and continuous infusion of beta-lactam antibiotics

“While more studies are needed to confirm prospective clinical outcomes, the current body of evidence suggests extended and continuous infusions of beta-lactam antibiotics are well tolerated” Imburgia and Kussin (2022).

Outpatient treatment with daptomycin

“In a diverse clinical population, daptomycin for treatment of osteomyelitis of 6 weeks or longer duration was associated with success independent of dose” Delate et al (2022).

Drug administration error research

“In particular, omitting to hand wash before administering a drug (98.4%), omitting to disinfect the site of injection (37.7%), and omitting to confirm the patient’s name (74.4%) were the 3 most frequently observed omissions” Savva et al (2022)

Vascular access creation in pre-dialysis patients

“In a group of patients referred for vascular access creation the predictive models are relatively poor when applied to initiation of dialysis” Kuningas et al (2022).

Leukopenia and thrombocytopenia CLABSI risk – Full Text

“Leukopenia and thrombocytopenia at the time of CVC placement are both risk factors of line infection for tunneled large-bore CVCs” Luman et al (2022).

Lock solution for prevention of CRBSI and thrombosis

“Tested against clinically used vancomycin and gentamicin lock solutions, GSNO-based NOreLS repeatedly outperformed in models of different stages of catheter infections” Ashcraft et al (2022).

Guide-wire type for neonatal vascular access

“The short peripheral cannula combined with a straight-tip guide-wire was superior to the needle combined with a J-tip guide-wire for USG newborn IJV catheterization in terms of successful guide-wire insertion on the first attempt and overall number of insertion attempts” Jia et al (2022).

Distraction during peripheral IV insertion – Full Text

“We hypothesise that distraction via an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience may reduce the associated distress for children undergoing IV insertions” Ali et al (2022)

Tunneled cuffed CVC and AV fistulae failure – Full Text

“A history of a TCC bridge was an independent risk factor for AVF failure and the time of AVF failure was significantly higher during the first year after the fistula cannulation in the TCC bridge group” Wu et al (2022).

Implantable port complications during a pandemic – Full Text

“This study aimed to examine the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on the care and complication rates associated with subcutaneous venous port (PORT) insertion in cancer treatment” Dahlin et al (2022).

HAI in Brazilian hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic – Full Text

“There was an increase in CLABSI incidence in Brazilian ICUs during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic” Porto et al (2022).

OPAT Cefazolin administration – Full Text

“The aim of this study was to assess the clinical outcomes of cefazolin delivered each day (Group 24) vs. every two days (Group 48) for MSSA infections in OPAT programs” Herrera-Hidalgo et al (2022).

Smart IV pump library in hematology and oncology

“Review of a hematology/oncology DERS library found improvements that better met the needs of end users” Misko and Rawlins (2022).

Arterial catheters outside the intensive care unit

“To the authors knowledge, this is the first article describing the insertion and management of ACs for on-demand utilization outside the intensive care unit” Giustivi et al (2022).

PICC and CLABSI risk – Full Text

“PICCs have a protective role and the effect of fluctuation curve feature in CLABSI when compared to CVCs” Lv et al (2022).

Tunneled CVC placement with subcutaneous emphysema

“We describe our experience with a unique situation while placing a tunneled dialysis catheter in a COVID-19 patient with acute respiratory failure and subcutaneous emphysema” Geoarge et al (2022).

Intravenous iron anaphylaxis

“The rates of anaphylaxis were very low with all IV iron products but were 3- to 8-fold greater for iron dextran and ferumoxytol than for iron sucrose” Dave et al (2022).

Smart IV pumps and dose error reduction – Full Text

“Despite using dose error reduction software and autoprogramming, some types of errors persisted” Skog et al (2022).

PICC care quality improvement – Full Text

“The results showed that the number of nurses at maintenance sites increased from 79 to 232, the PICC placement rate for oncology patients increased from 35.0% to 76.0%” Zhou and Wang (2022).

Placement of cuffed tunnelled permanent hemodialysis catheter – Full Text

“Permanent cuffed tunnelled catheter has good patency and can be an alternative to an arteriovenous fistula” Vaidya et al (2022).

Ultrasound-guided central line placements in children – Full text

“Percutaneous central line insertion under US-control is safe and effective even in small children” Vasconcelos-Castro et al (2022).

Intravenous iron infusion reactions – Full Text

“These data, and the preponderance of published evidence, suggest that intravenous iron is generally well tolerated with exceedingly low risk of severe reaction” Arastu et al (2022).

Intraosseous catheterization training

“The results of the testing have shown the need for periodic intraosseous catheterization training so that physicians who have not practiced this manipulation would not lose the relevant skills and perform this manipulation safely when needed” Kikodze et al (2022).

Author: IVTEAM