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Obtaining and Maintaining Vascular Access in the Home Parenteral Nutrition Patient
Author(s) -
Steiger Ezra
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.935
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1941-2444
pISSN - 0148-6071
DOI - 10.1177/014860710202600507
Subject(s) - parenteral nutrition , vascular access , intensive care medicine , medicine , surgery , hemodialysis
Obtaining and maintaining vascular access is a critical part of successful home parenteral nutrition (HPN) management. Most of the HPN related rehospitalization of patients is caused by problems associated with long‐term vascular access. The causes of death in HPN patients are mostly related to their primary underlying disease. However, approximately 12% of deaths in HPN patients are related to catheter‐associated problems. The appropriate placement of long‐term vascular access devices and their care and management should be familiar to all clinicians helping to manage these patients and will be discussed. (Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition26:S17‐S20, 2002)