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Standardized community-based PICC maintenance model – Full Text

"The standardized community-based PICC maintenance model significantly improved care quality, reduced complication rates, and enhanced patient experience. It offers a scalable framework for expanding specialist nursing services within primary care settings" Yang et al (2025).

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Reducing short peripheral intravenous catheter failure – Full Text

"Structured training programmes can help reduce sPVC failure rates, despite variations in programme implementation. Short- and long-term programmes showed benefits, with long-term training supporting sustained adherence to evidence-based practice despite requiring more resources. A small number of studies prevent definitive conclusions about overall effectiveness" Privitera et al (2025).

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Sharps injuries and splash exposures among healthcare workers – Full Text

"Sharps injuries and splash exposures are still frequent among healthcare workers in the UAE; therefore, interventions encouraging reporting and focusing on training for safe practices, ensuring adequate personal protective equipment supply, including safety-engineered products like auto-retractable needles, are recommended to mitigate the risk" Karkaz et al (2025).

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Review of OPAT in a tertiary hospital in France – Full Text

"A mixed methods study, using an exploratory sequential design, was conducted at a tertiary hospital in Paris, France. Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted with prescribing physicians and professionals involved in OPAT coordination and monitoring" Burnet et al (2025).

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Vascular access for breast cancer chemotherapy

"eliable venous access is critical for breast cancer chemotherapy, yet the optimal choice between peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC) and implantable port catheters (IPC) remains unclear. This meta-analysis compares complication risks associated with these devices in patients with breast cancer" Chen et al (2025).

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Length of antibiotic treatment in patients with periprosthetic joint infection

"Traditionally, prolonged courses of antibiotics were used; however, extending therapy may not improve outcomes, and raises risks such as toxicity and antimicrobial resistance. Recent evidence suggests that shorter antibiotic regimens and early transition to oral antibiotics can be equally effective in some circumstances" Kennedy et al (2025).

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Central venous catheter salvage strategy

"Managing central-line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) in children with long-term central venous catheters (CVC) is challenging. Catheter salvage strategy (CSS) can be attempted when intravenous therapy is essential, though it lacks standardization" Pellegrino et al (2025).

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Review of aspiration prior to intramuscular injection

"Aspiration during IM injections increases pain and procedure time without reducing complication risk. These findings support current international guidelines discouraging routine aspiration, particularly in pediatric and vaccine-related applications" Yıldız Karaahmet et al (2025).

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Peripheral intravenous catheter care for older patients

"This scoping review addresses this gap by mapping the available literature on peripheral intravenous catheter use in hospitalised older people to identify the characteristics of the existing evidence and opportunities for future research" Howell et al (2025).

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