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Marc Anders. Central venous catheters, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2013. Available at: https://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.3767
Use of central venous catheters in the acute care setting is an integral approach to deliver fluids, blood products, nutrients, medications, obtaining blood specimens, maintaining emergency vascular access, and for haemodynamic monitoring.
Ask nurse to complete the checklist and to stop you if you are about to breach the rules!
Maximal sterile barriers for insertion
Use chlorhexidine lollipops – the use of liquid in pot is absolutely forbidden!
Dedicated equipment cart easily accessed
Use of a procedural pause “stop the line” if barrier precautions are breached
Use of chlorhexidine impregnated patch at insertion site
Appropriate dressings used over insertion site
Radiographical confirmation of catheter tip position
Always transduce pressure waveform (with heparin)
Details of insertion documented in patient record
Maintenance:
Commence heparin 10 U/kg/hr in patients <5 kg
Daily review of lines with prompt removal of unnecessary lines
Use of closed needless mechanical valve on each lumen
References:
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5110a1.htm
[2] The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal, 2010; Sept 29(9): 812 -815: Prasad et al: Risk Factors for Catheter-associated Bloodstream Infections in a Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.
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Central venous catheters
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Marc Anders. Central venous catheters, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2013. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.3767
Use of central venous catheters in the acute care setting is an integral approach to deliver fluids, blood products, nutrients, medications, obtaining blood specimens, maintaining emergency vascular access, and for haemodynamic monitoring.
Risk factors:
Mechanical complications (malposition, occlusion, dislodgement, tamponade), infection, pneumothorax, thrombosis
Insertion:
Ask nurse to complete the checklist and to stop you if you are about to breach the rules!
Maintenance:
References:
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5110a1.htm [2] The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal, 2010; Sept 29(9): 812 -815: Prasad et al: Risk Factors for Catheter-associated Bloodstream Infections in a Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.All Marc’s PICU cardiology FOAM can be found on PICU Doctor and can be downloaded as a handy app for free on iPhone or Android. A list of contributors can be seen here.
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