Central Venous Access Devices
Subtitle: Care and Management (Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: February 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781405119528
Subjects: Cardiothoracic surgery; Nursing; Lasers in Medicine; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Nursing - General; CATHETERS; Medical / General; NURSES AND NURSING; Intravenous catheterization; Blood-vessels; Cutdown
First sentence: Central venous access devices (CVADs) have been in use for many years and they have been refereed to in the literature and by healthcare professionals as 'long lines', 'central lines', 'Hickman lines' and 'port a caths'.