Journal of Infusion Nursing

23/01/2025

of a questionnaire on PIVC maintenance; (2) content validity assessment by experts with assessment of comprehensiveness, relevance, and clarity; and (3) application of the questionnaire to 1493 nursing professionals. Relationships between personal characteristics and knowledge levels were evaluated....

21/01/2025

ll patients, especially those of advanced age and those suffering from critical illness. Most of the documented errors are based on clinician reports, although there is reason to believe that errors due to flow rate inaccuracy go undetected and unreported. The purpose of this systematic literature r...

20/01/2025

a university hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. Data collection occurred in 3 stages: development of scenarios and assessment checklists, evaluation of expert consensus, and testing scenarios with the target audience. Data analysis involved calculating the Modified Kappa coefficient. The OSCE comprised...

16/01/2025

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14/01/2025

r of attempts until successful insertion, and the degree of venodilation upon insertion among hospital inpatients aged ≥65 years were investigated, along with measurements of the vessel diameter and depth using ultrasound. In total, 91 PIVC insertions were analyzed. The vessel diameter was estimat...

13/01/2025

nvenience purposive sampling. A qualitative descriptive approach was employed. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the participants and analyzed using the content analysis method. Five main themes emerged: (1) description of chemotherapy exposure incidents, (2) nurse’s personal health b...

09/01/2025

o 7 days. Results show no significant difference in maintaining the PICCs’ patency between the 2 locking methods. Additionally, heparin was associated with more side effects, higher costs, and increased nursing time compared to 0.9% sodium chloride. These findings support adopting 0.9% sodium chlo...

07/01/2025

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26/11/2024

ck. Patients often experience bacterial infections, such as catheter-related bloodstream infections, specifically when they are in critical condition in the intensive care unit (ICU) after surgery or undergoing resuscitation in an emergency department. A previous study has shown that P*S may cause i...

25/11/2024

nd erroneous results, noting central venous access device (CVAD) type. Primary objectives included the comparison of hospital-acquired anemia and transfusion rates utilizing Hgb and venous sampling methods as part of a patient blood management (PBM) program. Secondary objectives tracked the type of....

21/11/2024

ravenous catheter were randomized to receive partially reinforced dressings or fully reinforced dressings (dressings with integral catheter securement). Patients were followed throughout their entire catheter course, and complications included infection, occlusion, phlebitis, accidental dislodgement...

19/11/2024

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18/11/2024

identify an injection port and administer a medication rapidly. This study tested a commercially available light-linking infusion line identification device. Researchers compared standard labeling practices to the light-linking technology on time to injection, error rate, usability, and task load. F...

14/11/2024

. At present, the midline catheter is one of the median duration devices most commonly used and recommended within the context of HIAT. The objective of this study was to evaluate the occurrence of complications related to midline catheters implanted by a vascular access team in patients undergoing....

12/11/2024

theter tip location on midline catheter-associated thrombosis (MCAT) risk is unclear. Using a retrospective cohort of hospitalized patients who not only had a midline catheter but also had a chest x-ray and venous duplex performed, the authors evaluated whether axillary vein tip location increased t...

11/11/2024

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19/09/2024

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17/09/2024