Introduction of color‐flow injection test to confirm intravascular location of peripherally placed intravenous catheters

• Published in: Pediatric anesthesia Vol. 27; no. 8; pp. 821 - 826
• Main Authors: Gautam, Nischal K., Bober, Kayla R., Cai, Chunyan, Lerman, Jerrold
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: France Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.08.2017
• Subjects: Anesthesia, General; Catheterization, Peripheral; Catheters; Echocardiography, Doppler, Color - methods; extravasation; Feasibility Studies; Female; general anesthesia; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; infiltration; Intraoperative Period; Male; pediatric anesthesia; Pediatrics; peripheral intravenous catheters; Prospective Studies; Reproducibility of Results; safety; Sensitivity and Specificity; Ultrasonography; Veins - diagnostic imaging; extravasation; pediatric anesthesia; peripheral intravenous catheters; general anesthesia; safety; infiltration

Summary Background The incidence of infiltration and extravasation when using peripheral intravenous catheters is high in pediatric patients. Due to the lack of a gold standard test to confirm intravascular location of a peripherally placed intravenous catheter, we introduce a novel method, the colo...