title: [Effectiveness and complications of percutaneous central venous catheters in neonatal intensive care].
abstract: Low birth weight babies and sick full-term babies, who require total parenteral nutrition and repeated intravenous applications of drugs, which irritate peripheral veins, very often need a reliable central venous catheter. The aim of our paper was to study prospectively the efficiency and the complications of peripheral percutaneous Silastic-catheters. Over a period of 9 month we inserted 114 central venous catheters via peripheral veins in 111 premature babies and sick full-term infants at our neonatal intensive care unit. The mean duration of use was 13.7 days, the catheter-induced septicaemia-rate was 3.5%. We never saw serious complications of a central venous catheter, the most common complication was an intravasal central obstruction, but we found no relation between the occurrence-risk of complications, the duration of use and the infusion flow rate.
authors.affiliation: Kinderabteilung des Donauspitals/Wien.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Sterniste
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vavrik
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lischka
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sacher
mesh_terms: D001724:Birth Weight; D002405:Catheterization, Central Venous / Q000295:instrumentation*; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D004866:Equipment Contamination; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D008297:Male; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome
vernacular_title: Effizienz und Komplikationen zentralvenöser Einschwemmkatheter in der Intensivneonatologie.