We reviewed the management and outcome of CVC line infections at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia from July 1980 to September 1984. Bacteremia or fungemia occurred 55 times in 47 patients, aged 1 week to 16 years (median 3 mos), an overall rate of 8% for the study period. CVCs...
About every sixth patient (17.6%) was neutropenic at the time of CVC insertion. Base- line characteristics were well balanced between the four groups. In the control group, CVC were in situ for a median of 14 days (interquartile range [IQR] 7–23). In this group, the median time...
Define Time of Removal. Time of Removal synonyms, Time of Removal pronunciation, Time of Removal translation, English dictionary definition of Time of Removal. n. 1. Something securely fixed in place. 2. Something attached as a permanent appendage, appar
The CVC removal distress syndrome: an unappreciated complication of central venous catheter removal. The removal of a central venous catheter (CVC) can be complicated by rare but potentially life-threatening neurocardiopulmonary distress. The clinical cour......
Neonatal jaundice, which is caused by excessive bilirubin retention in skin and blood, has become one major threat to the health of newborn babies1,2. So far, many therapeutic protocols have been developed to overcome its damages to the central nervous system and among them, the commonly-used...
Central Venous Catheter (CVC) placement and maintenance can be difficult due to non-intact skin and possible surrounding weeping wounds. In addition, routinely used products require intact skin for the adherence of the central line dressing along with sutures or securement devices. With the increased...
Case Presentation: Here, we present two cases that highlight the successful removal of the stuck tunneled CVC via thoracotomy through the close collaboration of multidisciplinary specialists in the best possible way. Both patients underwent an unsuccessful attempt at thrombolytic therapy with urok...
The experiment has been performed in CVC-MUSCIMA dataset and the results obtained that the proposed approach is efficient for score line detection and writer identification without removing staff lines. To get the idea of computation time of our method, detail analysis of execution time is also ...
Terminologies were used interchangeably such ascentral venous catheters(CVC) andcentral venous access devices. CVC was also used to describe the multi-lumen catheter most commonly used in critical care units. Despite the termcentral venous catheterbeing used more frequently as the term to describe al...
Procedure: This retrospective, single center cohort analysis was conducted on pediatric patients with hematological and oncological disorders inserted with either a PICC or a tunneled CVC. Results: Between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2015, 89 patients inserted with tunneled CVCs (total 21,...