Chapter 4 Central Venous Catheters: Materials, Designs, and Selection Matthew A. Mauro Currently, a wide array of central venous access devices is available, for a variety of indications, and in…
Chapter 14 Central Venous Access Catheter Infections: An Overview Robert D. Lyon Allen Meglin Long-term central venous access devices represent a major advance in medical care, allowing continuous access to…
Chapter 12 Catheter Care Philip C. Pieters Melinda Pyle Jaime Tisnado This chapter discusses primarily the nursing tasks that need to be carried out long after the physician has placed…
Chapter 9 Placement of Central Catheters in Specific Circumstances Philip C. Pieters Jaime Tisnado Several specific entities, some of which do not appear to be related to each other, are…
Chapter 1 Establishing (and Maintaining) a Venous Access Service Philip C. Pieters William J. Miller A more appropriate title of this chapter might have been Maintaining (and Establishing) a Venous…
