Venous access: the patient experience

Applying Totally Implantable Venous Access Devices (TIVAD) in Children: the First Iranian Experience

applying totally implantable venous access devices (tivad) in children: the first iranian experience

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Obtaining external jugular venous access in the prone-positioned patient

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Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality: The Case for Language Access

This paper aims to provide a description of the need for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) for Limited English Proficient (LEP) patients, an identification of how the lack of CLAS for LEP patients can compromise patient safety and healthcare quality, and discuss barriers to the provision of CLAS.

External Jugular Venous Route for Central Venous Access: Our Experience in 563 Surgical Patients

Objectives: Though external jugular vein is superficial, adequate sized, isolated from major neurovascular structures and its cannulation fairly simple and comfortable to patients, it is not commonly used. Internal jugular vein cannulation on the other hand is routinely used with reasonable success. This technique is not devoid of complications. In order to make the central venous cannulation s...