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Peripheral IV Access for Chemo Better Than Central Lines in Testicular Cancer?

Patients with testicular cancer had fewer venous access-related complications and overall thrombotic events when first-line chemotherapy was delivered via peripheral intravenous access compared with ...
Nature

Randomized trial of percutaneous central venous lines versus peripheral intravenous lines

To compare the occurrence of systemic infection or death in preterm infants with elective percutaneous central line (PCVL) placement versus peripheral intravenous catheter (PIV) placement. A total of ...
Main Line

No Patient Asks to Be Stuck More than Once – B. Braun Unveils New Data-Driven Program Designed to Improve Patients’ Experience with Intravenous Therapies

BETHLEHEM, Pa., April 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — B. Braun Medical Inc. (B. Braun), a leader in infusion therapy and pain management, today unveiled Peripheral Advantage (R), a new program that is ...
Modern Healthcare

How to draw blood without a needle

Patients at Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health's hospitals and clinics across Northern California could soon have their blood drawn a little differently. Instead of sticking a patient with a ...
Business Wire

New 3M Tegaderm Antimicrobial I.V. Advanced Securement Dressing Helps Make Peripheral Lines a Central Part of Infection Risk Reduction Programs

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Every IV catheter poses potential for serious and costly complications, including those occurring from commonly used peripheral intravenous (PIV) catheters. According ...