Umbilical vessel catheterization is a routine practice for vascular access in critically ill neonates. Radiographs are used to confirm correct placement and to help distinguish between umbilical ...

Background: Umbilical vascular catheters are routinely inserted in critically ill newborn infants in most neonatal intensive care units (NICU). The objectives of this study were to determine ...

Though researchers found the same increasing trend for the incidence of UVC-associated CLABSI when the dwell time increased, as in previous studies, this study showed no significant difference in ...

There was a total of 130 respondents, yielding a 42% rate of return. Eighty-four percent of the respondents were physicians, 10% were nurses, and 6% were pharmacists. The majority of NICUs (65%) had ...

Objective: To determine the influence of catheter site and type (single- vs triple-lumen) on infection rates associated with central venous catheterization. Design: Prospective observational study of ...

Cardinal Health issued a recall of an insertion tray used during emergency intravenous catheter placement for critically ill newborns after its scalpel was implicated in the death of two infants, the ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday classified the recall of some of Cardinal Health Inc's devices, which are used to insert umbilical vein catheters in infants, as the most serious type ...

The survey instrument was approved by expedited review of our medical center's institutional review board. In November 2000, 311 NICUs having greater than 25 beds were identified from the United ...