Nursing and midwifery practice for maintenance of vascular access device patency. A cross-sectional survey.
Background Up to 85% of hospital in-patients will require some form of vascular access device to deliver essential fluids, drug therapy, nutrition and blood products, or facilitate sampling. The failure rate of these devices is unacceptably high, with 20–69% of peripheral intravenous catheters and 1...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Nursing Studies Vol. 52; no. 11; pp. 1678 - 1686 |
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| Autores principales: | , , , , , |
| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Elsevier B.V.
Nov2015
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