TY - JOUR
T1 - Ultrasound-guided catheter tip location in neonatal central venous access. Focus on well-defined protocols and proper ultrasound training
AU - Barone, Giovanni
AU - Pittiruti, Mauro
AU - D'Andrea, Vito
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - the high success rate in tip location. This is probably secondary
to the appropriate training of the health care providers in the
use of ultrasound scans and to the adoption of a well-defined
protocol for tip location. We have previously proposed a very
similar approach,2 developing a protocol, “Neo-ECHOTIP,”
which includes the use of 3 different acoustic windows (apical
4-chamber view, bicaval subcostal view, high right parasternal
longitudinal view) plus a small flush of normal saline (so-called
“bubble test”), so to increase the accuracy of tip visualization.
AB - the high success rate in tip location. This is probably secondary
to the appropriate training of the health care providers in the
use of ultrasound scans and to the adoption of a well-defined
protocol for tip location. We have previously proposed a very
similar approach,2 developing a protocol, “Neo-ECHOTIP,”
which includes the use of 3 different acoustic windows (apical
4-chamber view, bicaval subcostal view, high right parasternal
longitudinal view) plus a small flush of normal saline (so-called
“bubble test”), so to increase the accuracy of tip visualization.
KW - point of care ultrasound
KW - point of care ultrasound
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/261222
U2 - 10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.05.035
DO - 10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.05.035
M3 - Article
SN - 0022-3476
VL - 247
SP - 181
EP - 181
JO - THE JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS
JF - THE JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS
ER -