Percutaneous insertion of central venous catheter (CVC) is a valuable procedure in managing critically ill patients. However, placement of CVC is not without its complications. The author reports a case in which a CVC was inserted into the right pleural cavity which was not detected by the usual clinical methods of confirming catheter placement and an antero-posterior (A-P) chest x-ray.

Removal of central venous catheters (CVCs) from candidaemic patients is considered the reference standard of care, although this practice is not always possible. The impact of prompt catheter removal on outcome was investigated by analysing data from an active population-based surveillance study in Barcelona, Spain. Patients with candidaemia and a CVC were identified between January 2002 and De...

In this work, cardio-ventilatory coupling (CVC) refers to the statistical relationship between the onset of either inspiration (I) or expiration (E) and the timing of heartbeats (R-waves) before and after these respiratory events. CVC was assessed in healthy, young (<45 yr), resting, supine subjects (n = 19). Four intervals were analyzed: time from I-onset to both the prior R-wave (R-to-I) and ...

BACKGROUND Cerebrovascular complications (CVCs) frequently occur in patients with acute infective endocarditis (IE). The aim of this study is to describe the clinical findings of CVCs and to evaluate the impact of CVCs on long-term mortality in patients with IE. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 144 patients who fulfilled the modified Duke's criteria for definite left-sided IE. CVCs were cl...

The connected vertex cover (CVC) problem is a variant of the vertex cover problem, 1 which has many important applications, such as wireless network design, routing and wavelength 2 assignment problem, etc. A good algorithm for the problem can help us improve engineering 3 efficiency, cost savings and resources in industrial applications. In this work, we present an efficient 4 algorithm GRASP-...

We compared manual and computer-assisted bloodstream infection surveillance for adult inpatients at two hospitals. We identified hospital-acquired, primary, central-venous catheter (CVC)-associated bloodstream infections by using five methods: retrospective, manual record review by investigators; prospective, manual review by infection control professionals; positive blood culture plus manual C...

Background: Cardiac valve calcification (CVC) is associated with adverse cardiovascular events. We studied the risk factors of CVC in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients and value serum β2-microglobulin (β2-MG) levels predicting incidence CVC. β2-MG a middle molecular weight toxin. In recent years, researchers found that elevated blood was coronary, thoracic, abdominal aortic calcifications...

de BCVC/CVC/1.000 días, mortalidad y hospitalización por BCVC) comparado a pacientes con sellado con heparina3. La resistencia bacteriana a G ha sido objetivada4, pero nuestra experiencia desde julio de 2003 en pacientes con CVC que ingresan en la unidad y se tratan con sellado de G con dosis más bajas (dato que consideramos fundamental por su influencia en la iatrogenia) que las administradas ...

Central venous catheters (CVC) continue to remain a common modality of vascular access in end stage kidney disease patients maintained on hemodialysis. The increased morbidity and mortality associated with CVC, when compared to arteriovenous fistulas and grafts, is a serious health problem and a big challenge to the nephrology community. In this article we present the pros and cons of CVC, in a...