Ultrasound-guided central venous catheterisation is easier, quicker and safer than the traditional method using landmarks, and should be the method of choice when treating critical care patients. In ...
Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2013;14(3):273-283. Ultrasonography may be used to supplement the landmark method. [53] Three different techniques have been described. The real-time two-dimensional ultrasound ...
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 ...
If healthcare practitioners have agreed locally on the clinical circumstances where 2D imaging ultrasound guidance is to be used when a CVC insertion is necessary, the audit also could be carried out ...
Two new studies appear to support the controversial hypothesis that angioplasty can improve perceived quality of life (QOL), and possibly symptoms as well, in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).
Serena Auñón-Chancellor, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine's branch campus in Baton Rouge, is the lead author of a paper describing a ...