Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with inflammatory bowel disease receiving long-term home parenteral nutrition via tunneled catheters ...

The study was a retrospective analysis of 872 patients who had undergone hemodialysis using tunneled catheters at two US dialysis units during a 10-year period. Overall, 1,853 tunneled catheters were ...

Clinicians need not routinely replace uninfected peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) to prevent infection in infants, but should remove tunneled catheters before week 7 if no longer needed ...

Nephrologists loathe placing tunneled dialysis catheters in their patients on hemodialysis. Not only are blood flows limited by these devices, but also the risk of infection is high, increasing both ...

Stem cell apheresis has become a routine procedure in adults and also children with high risk malignancies.1 2 Harvest procedures in pediatric patients are complicated by low patient body mass, ...

With a central venous catheter, you basically have a direct line from the outside world right to your heart. That’s great for getting treatment, but it means you have to manage it very carefully.

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers found 20 exit site positive swabs among 52 patients using a biopatch at baseline. The incidence of ...

Randomized controlled trials comparing the two catheter types have found a higher risk of bacteremia with non-tunneled catheters, and two large prospective non-randomized comparisons of the two ...