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It’s a common practice — maintaining peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVCs) in stable hospital patients even after the need for IV therapy has been resolved. And the thinking goes, why not? After ...

There is good lot of training and experience which is needed while inserting IV catheters, especially when working with the elderly and young children. In this area, errors happen quite often which ...

A NEED exists for an intravenous catheter that possesses better properties than the currently available polyethylene catheter. Ideally, a catheter for intravenous infusion should have the following ...

The following text provides a summary of the teaching points that appear in the video. Placement of peripheral intravenous (IV) catheters is a fundamental skill that all health care professionals ...

Is it beneficial to change peripheral indwelling intravenous catheters after 72-96 hours? To answer this question, the authors performed a randomized controlled trial comparing routine (n = 1690) with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A newly developed short peripheral IV catheter insertion skills checklist has yielded positive results in the ...

Please can you give a brief introduction to intravenous catheters? Peripheral intravenous catheters (“IV drips”) are small plastic tubes inserted into veins, most frequently in the hand or arm. They ...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common bacterial infections, with catheter-associated UTIs accounting for ...

Peripheral intravenous (IV) catheter contains a slim flexible plastic tube that can be inserted in the peripheral vein in a patient’s arm using a hollow needle, which can then be withdrawn, and ...

The global peripheral intravenous catheter market is expected to observe steady growth in 2016, reaching beyond US$ 3.8 Bn by 2016 end. Wide adoption of catheterisation techniques in patient ...