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A clinical pathway for the management of difficult venous access

BACKGROUND: Many patients are admitted to hospital with non-visible or palpable veins, often resulting in multiple painful attempts at cannulation, anxiety and catheter failure. We developed a difficult intravenous pathway at our institution to reduce the burden of difficult access for patients by i...

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Autores principales: Sou, Vanno, McManus, Craig, Mifflin, Nicholas, Frost, Steven A., Ale, Julie, Alexandrou, Evan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5693534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29176933
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-017-0261-z