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App for the care of people with vascular access devices

"Cuidaven® is an app designed specifically to improve adherence to best practices in the care of people with venous catheters, and to increase health education and involvement of patients in their own clinical safety and self-care" Bujalance-Hoyos et al (2025).

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Removal of broken venous access port – Full Text

"Experience in removing broken catheters is limited and there are no special tools. We present 4 cases of catheter removal using the available lassos/lasso catheter and tools designed for transvenous lead extraction and coronary sinus lead implantation via a femoral and subclavian approach" Kutarski et al (2025).

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Prehospital IV fluid resuscitation after trauma

"Overall, crystalloid volumes administered in the prehospital setting were low in this cohort of hypotensive trauma patients exposed to at least 30 min of prehospital care. This may suggest that the practice of fluid restriction for patients who are hypotensive following trauma has permeated into EMS practice nationwide" Nordstrom et al (2025).

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Self-removal of medical devices in ICU – Full Text

"Self-removal of medical devices (SRMD) is common in the intensive care unit (ICU). Most studies of this issue concentrate on self-extubation, leaving self-removal of other devices less well studied" Culhane et al (2025).

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Lost guidewire case report – Full Text

"Iatrogenic guidewire loss is associated with significant risk of morbidity and mortality, and the guidewire must be removed. A fragmented wire can be removed percutaneously by forming a free loop with an additional wire" McGrath et al (2025).

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Safe insertion of umbilical venous catheter bundle – Full Text

"The recently described SIUVeC (Safe Insertion Umbilical Venous Catheter) protocol incorporates all the innovations suggested by the latest literature, with the intention of reducing the risk associated with this procedure. The purpose of this paper is to report the outcomes of the systematic implementation of this protocol" Barone et al (2025).

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