Hospitals can reduce the risk of life-threatening bloodstream infections in children with peripherally inserted central venous catheters by assessing daily the patient's progress and removing the ...

Nurses push alternate strategies to combat infection in pediatric intensive care unit. Children in the pediatric intensive care unit often can't tell nurses how their bodies are reacting to treatment ...

A peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) is a small, thin, and flexible tube inserted into a vein in the upper arm and guided into the superior vena cava to deliver intravenous fluids, ...

Objectives: To summarize existing knowledge regarding the prevalence of complications associated with temporary percutaneous central venous catheters placed in critically ill children, and to review ...

In our hospital, patients treated with high-dose chemo/radiotherapy (HDC) regimens followed by bone marrow transplantation (BMT) are fitted with a central venous catheter which is usually inserted a ...

The first of two articles on urinary catheterisation explains the procedure for children and young people, including the reasons, positioning, and safety considerations. Abstract Catheter insertion is ...