Breast cancer treatments such as chemotherapy usually require frequent blood tests and usually need to be given through your vein, or through IVs. It can become painful to be repeatedly poked with ...

Patients with testicular cancer had fewer venous access-related complications and overall thrombotic events when first-line chemotherapy was delivered via peripheral intravenous access compared with ...

This was a retrospective cohort study of infants admitted between July 2006 and December 2009 at a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto. PICCs’ were inserted either by ...

It’s a common practice — maintaining peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVCs) in stable hospital patients even after the need for IV therapy has been resolved. And the thinking goes, why not? After ...

Children's veins are small and sometimes difficult to access during necessary medical treatment. When caregivers used ultrasound to guide placement of intravenous (IV) lines in children with presumed ...