The New England Journal of Medicine

Platelet Transfusion before CVC Placement in Patients with Thrombocytopenia

Transfusion guidelines regarding platelet-count thresholds before the placement of a central venous catheter (CVC) offer conflicting recommendations because of a lack of good-quality evidence. The ...
Medscape

Use of Simulation-based Mastery Learning to Improve the Quality of Central Venous Catheter Placement in a Medical Intensive Care Unit

This was a cohort study [20] of IJ and SC CVC insertions by 41 second- and third-year internal medicine residents rotating through the MICU in a university-affiliated program from October 2006 to ...
Healio

Transfusion policies may negatively affect outcomes after central catheter placement

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with severe thrombocytopenia who did not receive prophylactic transfusion before catheter placement had ...
Becker's Hospital Review

CVC insertion project earns NIH grant for two Penn State assistant professors

The National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has awarded a grant of $698,178 to two assistant professors at Penn State in University Park, Pa., for their research ...
Medscape

PICCs Increase Thromboembolism Risk

Use of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) in children may significantly increase their risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE), a recent study published online today in the journal Blood ...