A man died from blood poisoning after his penis filled with blood due to a misplaced catheter. His family has filed a lawsuit seeking damages for the pain and anguish the man experienced. There are ...

Objectives: To examine the prevalence of and risk factors associated with arterial catheterization complications in a large pediatric patient population in an effort to generate hypotheses for future ...

The use of antimicrobial-impregnated catheters should be considered in all circumstances, especially when the institutional rate of catheter-related bloodstream infections is higher than 2 percent, ...

Central venous catheterization of the subclavian vein was associated with the lowest risk for bloodstream infections and symptomatic thrombosis compared with insertions at the jugular or femoral veins ...

BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Access Vascular, Inc. (AVI), a company addressing the most common and costly vascular access complications with its novel hydrophilic biomaterial platform, today ...

Due to the constantly growing pool of available chemotherapy regimens, the use of central venous catheters (CVCs) has become an increasingly common method of therapy delivery that ensures safe and ...