Patients Randomised trials including infants under 32 weeks of gestational age. Interventions Intratracheal surfactant, irrespective of type or dose. Main outcome measures Our primary outcome was ...

Objectives To compare complications in neonates who had umbilical venous catheter (UVC) versus peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC), percentage of non-elective removal of central catheters, ...

There are no barriers to testing the old, obsolete polyurethane PICC lines, MedPorts ... that may include cerebral palsy in the case of neonates, loss of limb, kidney failure, multi-organ failure ...

Investigating sepsis in neonates, children, and adults caused by bloodstream infections caused by PICC lines, central lines, and midlines We know that the old, obsolete polyurethane and silicone ...

It is time these safer designs make it into the neonatal intensive care units as the risks of sepsis caused by the old obsolete polyurethane PICC lines and other central lines is unacceptable.” ...

Greg Vigna, MD, JD, national pharmaceutical injury attorney explains, “The authors of the Cochrane study state that central intravascular venous catheters which include PICC lines are a major cause of ...

Nurses and other staff in neonatal ICUs work daily to try to decrease the hospitals central line associated bloodstream infections. It is time to point the finger at the PICC line makers.” ...