ArticleCritical care explorations2023
Impact of Radial Arterial Location on Catheter Lifetime in ICU Surgical Intensive Care.
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- Dressings and securement devices to prevent complications for peripheral arterial catheters.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Feasibility and safety analysis of distal radial arterial catheterization for arterial pressure monitoring in ICU.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2025Trial
- Prevention of arterial catheter-related bloodstream infections: current evidence and future directions.Critical care (London, England) · 2026Review
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- Insertion Site Dilemma: Rethinking Radial Arterial Catheter Placement for Device Resilience.Critical care explorations · 2024Article
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Abstract
The use of arterial catheters is frequent in intensive care for hemodynamic monitoring of patients and for blood sampling, but they are often removed because of dysfunction. The primary objective is to compare the prevalence of radial arterial catheter dysfunction according to location in relation to the radiocarpal joint in intensive care patients.
designProspective randomized, controlled, single-center study.
settingThe surgical ICU of the university hospital of Poitiers in France. PATIENTS: From January 2016 to April 2017, all patients over 18 years old admitted to the surgical ICU and requiring an arterial catheter were included.
interventionsRandomization into two groups: catheter placed near the wrist (within 4 cm of the radiocarpal joint) and catheter placed away the wrist. The primary endpoint was the prevalence of dysfunction. We also compared the prevalence of infection and colonization. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN
resultsOne hundred seven catheters were analyzed (14 failed placements with no difference between the two groups, and 16 catheters excluded for missing data), with 58 catheters in near the wrist group and 49 in away the wrist group. We did not find any significant difference in the number of catheter dysfunctions between the two groups (
conclusionsThe distal or proximal position of the arterial catheter in the radial position has no influence on the occurrence of dysfunction. However, there may be an association with the prevalence of infections.
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