Ultrasound-guided percutaneous insertion of Broviac lines in infants less than 5kg: Prospective study of 100 consecutive procedures
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Snigdha M Reddy, Giampiero Soccorso, Sister Louise Lawrence, James Bennett, Ingo Jester, Max Pachl, Simon McGuirk, Michael Singh, Neil Bugg, Oliver Gee, Janet Stansfield, Peter N Bromley, G Suren Arul
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Abstract
Aim
Ultrasound-guided (USG) percutaneous insertion of Broviac lines (cuffed tunnelled silastic central venous catheters, TCVC) has increasingly been adopted throughout the UK. However, vascular access remains a challenge in small babies and in some units is still performed by open cutdown. Our vascular access team, established in 2004, consists of consultant surgeons, anaesthetists and interventional radiologists, who provide all permanent vascular access by the USG technique. We reviewed the outcome in our last 100 patients less than 5kg.
Method
A prospective database of TCVC insertions in patients
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