Clinical guidelines for venous access

Abstract

The clinical guidelines are a result of systematized knowledge and an analysis of practical experience in placing, using, and handling venous catheters. They reflect organizational issues and indications for catheter insertion, replacement, and removal. Main emphasis is laid on patent safety at all stages of work with the intravascular device. The major groups of complications to be prevented are identified. The strict observance of the sanitary standards and regulations, order and sequence of manual actions can assure the prevention of catheter-associated blood circulatory infection and intracatheter and intravascular thrombosis. The clinical guidelines contain the required minimum of information to make a hospital venous access protocol independently of the specific features of each therapeutic-and-prophylactic institution.