Central venous access in the home parenteral nutrition population-you PICC.

摘要: Background: Central venous access is imperative for the delivery of home parenteral nutrition (HPN). Peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC) are being used more frequently HPN. There an abundance short-term information on use PICC in hospitalized patient. However, there no data comparing to other devices (OCVAD; Hickman, port) Catheter-related infections (CRI) most common cause hospital readmission HPN patients. Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed from Digestive Disease Center database at Medical University South Carolina and open architecture clinical system (OACIS) clinic reporting system. All CRI were analyzed compared between patients with OCVAD. The group OCVAD further broken down into diabetic nondiabetic patients, incidence within those gr...