Complications of intravenous feeding catheters

✍ Scribed by Mr M. M. Mughal

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 996 KB
• Volume: 76
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800760107

✦ Synopsis

Abstract
Complications of intravenous nutrition are uncommon but may prove problematic in patients requiring long-term nutritional support. This article reviews the complications associated with intravenous catheters with particular emphasis on problems associated with insertion, catheterrelated sepsis, venous thrombosis, catheter occlusion, endocarditis and intracardiac thrombus formation.