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Routine resite of peripheral intravenous devices every 3 days did not reduce complications compared with clinically indicated resite: a randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Peripheral intravenous device (IVD) complications were traditionally thought to be reduced by limiting dwell time. Current recommendations are to resite IVDs by 96 hours with the exception of children and patients with poor veins. Recent evidence suggests routine resite is unnecessary, a...

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Autores principales: Rickard, Claire M, McCann, Damhnat, Munnings, Jane, McGrail, Matthew R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2944158/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20831782
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-8-53