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Features and Selection of Vascular Access Devices

Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 2010
To review venous anatomy and physiology, discuss assessment parameters before vascular access device (VAD) placement, and review VAD options.Journal articles, personal experience.A number of VAD options are available in clinical practice. Access planning should include comprehensive assessment, with attention to patient participation in the planning ...
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[Vascular access for shunt devices].

Chirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany), 2022
In Germany approximately 70,000 patients with a renal insufficiency are treated by hemodialysis. The most frequent reasons for the need for dialysis are currently diabetic nephropathy and nephrosclerosis. Due to the increasing average age and the resulting multimorbidity of dialysis patients, the difficulties of medical care have also increased ...
Theresia, Knop, Johannes, Hoffmann
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Complications of Vascular Access Devices for Hemodialysis

Angiology, 1985
Hemodialysis is essential in the management of end stage renal disease pa tients. Forty-eight contrast examinations of hemodialysis vascular access de vices were reviewed. Venous fistulography is the method of choice for the evaluation of these devices.
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Extravasation of Doxorubicin from Vascular Access Devices

Selective Cancer Therapeutics, 1990
An assessment was made of 36 extravasations of Adriamycin (doxorubicin) in which vascular access devices had been used. Of these, 25 (69%) were sufficiently severe to warrant removal of the device. Physical manifestations were frequently of delayed onset.
C F, Curran, J K, Luce
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Obtaining Access in Patients with Indwelling Vascular Access Devices

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1994
Chronic indwelling catheters are used increasingly for outpatient and inpatient therapy. Because more patients care for indwelling devices at home, indwelling lines are available to emergency department staff to draw blood and administer medications, blood products, and intravenous fluids.
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Vascular Access Device for Treatment of Cancer Patients

Artificial Organs, 1994
Abstract: Vascular access devices that are completely implanted have been used for treatment of cancer patients. Vascular access devices are useful for transarterial infusion of anticancer drugs, intravenous hyperalimentation, and drainage of bile juice in obstructive jaundice.
H, Honda, T, Hayashi, M, Kimikawa, S, Teraoka, T, Agishi   +4 more
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Medical device classification: focus on vascular access

British Journal of Nursing, 2018
Developments in the medical device industry are driven by a rapidly changing healthcare arena in combination with advances in technological fields such as materials science, bio-engineering and electronics. Subsequently, it is now estimated that over 500 000 different types of medical devices are produced globally.
Linda J, Kelly, Tracey, Jones
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Vascular Access Closure Devices

2012
In 2002, an estimated six million interventional cardiology and endovascular procedures were performed in the USA, and that number exceeded 10.5 million in 2009. In most of these procedures, the common femoral artery is used as the cardiac access site. For each of these cases, vascular access management is a critical aspect to determining a successful ...
Lina Vargas, Vikram S. Kashyap
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Vascular Access Device Thrombosis

Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 2003
Lora Wingerter, Jeannine M. Brant
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Vascular access devices

Nursing Standard, 2012
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