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 ...

To compare targeted neonatal echocardiography (TnECHO) and antero-posterior (AP) chest radiographs in the localization of the umbilical venous catheter (UVC) tip and to determine the accuracy of UVC ...

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 ...

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 ...

Medical catheters are tubes that can be inserted into a body cavity, vessel or duct, usually to allow for the administration of fluids, medications or gases or to drain fluids or urine from the body.

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 ...