Acute Medicine & Surgery, 2023 Aim To investigate an association between failure of initial peripheral intravascular catheter (PIVC) insertion and adverse events in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) from the emergency room (ER).
Yuki Kishihara +10 more
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Dosimetric equivalence of non-standard high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy catheter patterns [PDF]
Medical Physics 36(1), January 2009, pp. 233-239, 2009 Purpose: To determine whether alternative HDR prostate brachytherapy catheter patterns can result in improved dose distributions while providing better access and reducing trauma. Methods: Prostate HDR brachytherapy uses a grid of parallel needle positions to guide the catheter insertion.
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Peripheral nerve catheter securement: A narrative literature review
Journal of Perioperative Nursing, 2023 Peripheral nerve catheters are commonly used to provide analgaesia and improve patient outcomes. Catheter dislodgment, displacement or leakage can result in premature cessation of analgaesic effect. There are currently no published guidelines for how to
Joshua Wiesel +4 more
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Diagnostics, 2020 The aim of this study was to analyze results of stenting atrioseptostomy in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and a different level of risk for one-year mortality that is not well described.
Sergey V. Gorbachevsky +6 more
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Sodium Citrate Versus Heparin Locking Solutions for Tunneled Hemodialysis Catheters
Revista Portuguesa de Nefrologia e Hipertensão, 2023 Introduction: Hemodialysis catheter dysfunction compromises dialysis adequacy and may limit catheter survival. Strategies to prevent hemodialysis catheter dysfunction include catheter locks, generally either with heparin or citrate.
Patrícia Alves +2 more
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Parent Artery Complex Coil Protection for Side-Branched Wide-Neck Aneurysms [PDF]
Neurointervention, 2022 This study aimed to validate the usefulness of parent artery complex coil protection for the treatment of wide-neck, side-branched, and ruptured aneurysms.
Keisuke Sato +4 more
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DISINFECTION OF CATHETERS. [PDF]
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1886 To the Editor of the Journal: Dear Sir: —Permit me in this day of "catheter fever" to offer to your readers my mode of disinfecting catheters. Dr. Alexander Skene says that when he cut into his catheters which had lain several days in a strong solution of carbolic acid, they still contained micrococci underneath the incrustation.
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Force‐sensing catheters during pediatric radiofrequency ablation: The FEDERATION Study [PDF]
, 2017 Background Based on data from studies of atrial fibrillation ablations, optimal parameters for the TactiCath (TC; St. Jude Medical, Inc) force‐sensing ablation catheter are a contact force of 20 g and a force‐time integral of 400
Avari Silva, Jennifer N +4 more
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Bedside Ultrasound-Guided Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter Placement by Critical Care Fellows in Critically Ill Patients: A Feasibility and Safety Study [PDF]
Journal of Acute Care Surgery, 2021 Purpose In the intensive care unit, a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) may be an alternative option to standard central venous catheters, particularly in patients with coagulopathies or at high risk of infection. The purpose of this research
Jeeyoun Lim +3 more
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Willingness to participate in a randomized trial comparing catheters to fistulas for vascular access in incident hemodialysis patients: an international survey of nephrologists [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: Current guidelines favor fistulas over catheters as vascular access. Yet, the observational literature comparing fistulas to catheters has important limitations and biases that may be difficult to overcome in the absence of randomization ...
Dulai, Mandeep +10 more
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