Radiology, an imaging technique, is used in checking small animals for cardiovascular and respiratory disorders. Cardiovascular disease such as congestive heart failure, pericardial heart disease, heart worms and disease that cause injury and lesion in the right atrium may lead to an enlarged right side of the heart and as a result cause the enlargement of caudal vena cava (CVC). It is not poss...

OBJECTIVE To describe findings of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) in association with femoral central venous catheter (CVC) placement for intensive fluid management in children with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) secondary to type 1 diabetes. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of a children's referral medical center. PATIENTS DKA patients from 1998 t...

Objective- The aim of this study was to assess ultrasonography-derived caudal vena cava to aorta ratio (CVC/Ao) as a novel endpoint in the resuscitation of experimental hemorrhagic shock in dogs. Design- Experimental study. Animals- Ten adult mongrel healthy dogs. Procedures- After induction of anesthesia (con...

BACKGROUND Reliable central venous access (CVC) is essential for hematology-oncology patients since frequent puncture of peripheral veins-e.g., for chemotherapy, antibiotic administration, repeated blood sampling, and monitoring-can cause unacceptable pain and psychological trauma, as well as severe side effects in cases of extravasation of chemotherapy drugs. However, CVC lines still carry maj...

Guidewire retention is a severe but preventable complication from central venous catheter (CVC) insertion. There were three cases of guidewire retention during CVC insertion in the medical intensive care unit (MICU) in Singapore General Hospital, in the period between December 2011 and February 2012. The primary objective of this quality improvement project was to eliminate future incidences of...

OBJECTIVE To determine how often neonates with Enterobacteriaceae (ENTB) bacteremia can be treated successfully without removing central venous catheters (CVCs). METHODS A retrospective cohort study was conducted of ENTB bacteremia and CVCs in infants in a neonatal intensive care unit during a 7-year period (1994-2000). Cases of ENTB bacteremia were identified from a microbiology database and...

Rapidly developing research has found abnormal cardiac vagal control (CVC) in several physical and mental health conditions. CVC findings in depression are mixed, and the degree to which CVC is compromised in depression is unclear. A meta-analysis of 13 rigorous cross-sectional studies reveals that a diagnosis of depression exerts a small-to-medium effect size on CVC, and explains only about 2%...

Results 590 admitted patients: age 64.4 ± 15.4 years, 65% males, Apache II14.6 ± 9.2. 54.4% (321/590) required CVC. Apache II with CVC 19.2 ± 9.4 vs 9.1 ± 5 without CVC (p < 0.001). One CVC was inserted in 231 (72%), 2 in 72 (22.4%), 3 in 14 (4.4%), 4 in 2 (0.6%) and 5 in another 2 (0.6%). A total of 435 CVCs were inserted: 40% subclavian, 31.7% jugular, 26.9% femoral and 1.4% peripherally inse...