Each year, more than 2.2 million children around the world undergo central venous access procedures, with a thin, flexible ...

World Patient Safety Day on September 17 raises awareness about hospital-acquired infections, their impact, prevention, and ...

The health system has focused on catheter-associated urinary tract infection, central line-associated bloodstream infection, Clostridium difficile, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and ...

More than five million central lines are placed in patients who need prolonged drug delivery, such as those undergoing cancer treatments, in the United States every year, yet the common procedure can ...

Penn State researchers developed a robotic simulation training programing, pictured here, that allows medical residents to practice placing central lines under a variety of scenarios and receive ...

Though researchers found the same increasing trend for the incidence of UVC-associated CLABSI when the dwell time increased, as in previous studies, this study showed no significant difference in ...

The management of many medical and surgical conditions often involves long-term infusion of intravenous fluids, broad-spectrum antibiotics, chemotherapeutic agents for cancer, critical care therapies, ...

Mark E. Schafer, PhD, research professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, and colleagues received a 1-year $454,049 NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and ...

A new study led by researchers at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University suggests the rise in home healthcare services could come with dangerous consequences: an increase in central line-associated ...

S. boulardii Safe for Children with Acute Diarrhea What is the incidence of probiotic-associated central line infections in the ICU — and do the risks posed by these infections outweigh the benefits ...