Introduction Intravenous cannulation is a core competence in medicine, but is considered challenging to learn. This study investigates the effectiveness of three educational strategies used to refresh ...

1 Division of Cardiac Surgery, Cardiocentro Ticino Institute, EOC, Lugano, Switzerland 2 Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland The current ...

INTRODUCTION:Precut techniques allow for successful biliary cannulation rates approaching 100% but there may be an associated increase in the risk of complications. Recently, early needle-knife precut ...

1 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China 2 Guangdong Provincial Key ...

The following text summarizes information provided in the video. Specific contraindications to cannulation of the subclavian vein include infection of the area overlying the target vein, fracture or ...

Objective To assess the efficacy, acceptability, and safety of a topical alkane vapocoolant in reducing pain during intravenous cannulation in adults. Design Randomised double blind placebo controlled ...

Study objective—To determine whether the use of subcutaneous local anaesthetic (lignocaine) is associated with a reduction in cannulation pain in the emergency department setting. Methods—Patients ...

Objectives To assess the evidence for the clinical effectiveness of ultrasound guided central venous cannulation. Data sources 15 electronic bibliographic databases, covering biomedical, science, ...

Background— The site of cannulation for repair of ascending aortic dissection remains controversial. We present our experience with ascending aortic cannulation for acute aortic dissection type A.

School of Nursing, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. The review considered studies that patients were diagnosed with ESRD undergoing hemodialysis regularly at ...