Hope is on the horizon for sick children requiring intravenous canulation to administer medication, with a Griffith University-led randomised controlled trial providing evidence about the most ...

Pacemakers, relied upon by many patients with irregular heart rhythms, are not built for children. Scrambling up trees, hanging from monkey bars, and even the simple act of growing make the device ...

Setting: Two tertiary academic centers. Patients: We enrolled children younger than 18 years who were admitted to the PICU within 24 hours after insertion of a central venous catheter. We excluded ...

Long-Term Follow-Up of High-Dose Methotrexate-Based Therapy With and Without Whole Brain Irradiation for Newly Diagnosed Primary CNS Lymphoma Children with CVC-related DVT frequently have recurrent ...

Health Status and Quality of Life in Patients With Early-Stage Hodgkin’s Disease Treated on Southwest Oncology Group Study 9133 Purpose: Multiple studies have demonstrated that catheter-related ...

Recent study findings show postoperative location, urinary catheter insertion and use of an implantable device could be risk factors for surgical site infection among pediatric patients, according to ...

image: Avoiding the unnecessary use of indwelling catheters and promptly removing catheters that are no longer needed are the first steps in preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections in ...

More than 100 million urinary catheters are placed every year, and the devices can be lifesaving, especially after surgery. But many of those who use them—about a quarter of users in developing ...

Once the end of the catheter is inside the heart, a small surgical tool on its tip is used to perform the actual cardiac surgery. One problem lies in the fact that if the catheter is narrow enough to ...

Man taking medication Study findings support AUA guidelines to consider antibiotic prophylaxis at the time of catheter removal. Administering antibiotic prophylaxis at the time of catheter removal ...