A team at Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute successfully employed a robotic device to place a patient’s central line.  Vanderbilt Health is one of five centers selected by ...

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 ...

Infections can happen from not using appropriate sterile techniques, both before and after the central line placement. Moore highlighted that by widening the scope to include sterilization practices ...

The management of many medical and surgical conditions often involves long-term infusion of intravenous fluids, broad-spectrum antibiotics, chemotherapeutic agents for cancer, critical care therapies, ...