BACKGROUND Current European Guideline for resuscitation recommends a centrally positioned umbilical venous catheter as the best option for administering necessary drugs. Especially in preterm infants, a frequently used alternative is the peripheral venous catheter. METHODS Two randomized controlled studies were conducted at the Division of Neonatology, Medical University of Graz. During neona...

abstract we report a 54-year-old woman with the history of end-stage renal disease (esrd) who was admitted to our hospital because of volume overload. due to long-term use of peripheral veins and arteriovenous fistula (avf) failure, central venous catheterization was the only choice for hemodialysis. she developed right upper extremiti’s pain and paresis during hemodialysis. a posteroanterior c...

BACKGROUND The main cause of unsuccessful peripheral radial artery catheterization using traditional palpation is imprecisely locating the arterial center. The authors evaluated factors causing disparities between the arterial centers determined by palpation versus ultrasound. The authors applied them to create and test a novel catheterization training program. METHODS The arterial central ax...

INTRODUCTION Brachial artery occlusion is a documented complication after catheterization procedures performed via the brachial artery. These are mainly managed conservatively or with surgical thrombo-embolectomy. We present a case with acute brachial artery occlusion successfully managed with balloon angioplasty and thrombolytic therapy. CASE PRESENTATION A 68-year-old African-American femal...

To assess superior vena caval (SVC) obstruction after the Mustard operation for transposition of the great arteries, we performed two-dimensional contrast echocardiography (2-D contrast echo) in 18 patients, ages 1-9 years. Sterile saline was injected into a peripheral scalp or arm vein while the junction of the inferior vena cava (IVC) and the systemic venous atrium (SVA) was imaged from the s...

background: the normal prostate-specific antigen (psa) level in patients with urethral catheterization is a controversy. we designed this study to investigate the effect of nontraumatic urethral catheterization without urinary retention on serum psa. materials and methods: seventy patients scheduled for urethral catheterization before elective surgeries were randomly selected and included in th...

Selective right pulmonary arteriography and 3-dimensional computed tomography revealed multiple severe stenoses of the peripheral pulmonary artery associated with poststenotic aneurysms in a 65-year-old woman. She was referred to the hospital for evaluation of dry cough, gradually increasing dyspnea and multiple nodular shadows on a chest radiograph. Echocardiography and cardiac catheterization...

OBJECTIVE To examine the perioperative cardiac morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing major vascular surgery with beta-blockade after a positive stress test or cardiac catheterization. DESIGN Retrospective review of a quality assurance database. SETTING A university teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS A consecutive series of 31 patients undergoing peripheral vascular or aortic surgery...