ORLANDO, Fla.—In patients selected for placement of a tunneled dialysis catheter (TDC), right internal jugular vein placement should be used preferentially to maximize catheter survival, according to ...
Anthony A. Bavry, M.D., M.P.H. Intensive care unit patients who required acute renal replacement therapy were randomized to catheterization in the jugular vein (n = 375) or the femoral vein (n = 375).
Peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC) are a type of deep venipuncture, for which the catheter tip malposition rate is high. To examine the feasibility of preventing catheter tip malposition ...
(HealthDay News) — For patients in intensive care units who need a catheter, placement in the subclavian vein appears to lower the risk of bloodstream infection and deep-vein thrombosis, compared to ...
Internal Jugular, Subclavian, and Axillary Deep Venous Thrombosis and the Risk of Pulmonary Embolism
The objective of this study was to investigate the risk of acute internal jugular, subclavian, and axillary deep venous thrombosis (upper torso DVT [UTDVT]) and pulmonary embolism (PE) and the role of ...
The following text summarizes information provided in the video. The retromandibular and posterior auricular veins join at the angle of the mandible to form the external jugular vein, which runs ...
Spontaneous migration of an implanted central venous access device into the ipsilateral jugular vein
A 46-year-old man with sickle cell disease was assessed in our outpatient clinic for right neck pain. To facilitate venous access for manual exchange transfusions and iron chelation therapy, a central ...
Eyal Barzel, MD, implanting a dialysis catheter without the use of a sheath. WASHINGTON, D.C.—Tunneled dialysis catheters may be implanted without a sheath to limit the size of the venotomy and thus ...
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