Temporary hemodialysis catheters are difficult in newborns because there's not much catheter design for these small kids, you end up with a lot of catheter that's not intravascular and it moves in and out, and it's an 8 French size catheter limited to the jugular veins
Tunneled hemodialysis catheters are easier to maintain from a movement standpoint but are still very large and likely to cause thrombosis locally and/or stenosis in the central circulation
Managing Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease: Cincinnati Fetal Center
▶Ep 1 · 31:27
clinicalTemporary hemodialysis catheters are difficult in newborns because there's not much catheter design for these small kids, you end up with a lot of catheter that's not intravascular and it moves in and out, and it's an 8 French size catheter limited to the jugular veins↗
▶Ep 1 · 31:53
clinicalTunneled hemodialysis catheters are easier to maintain from a movement standpoint but are still very large and likely to cause thrombosis locally and/or stenosis in the central circulation↗