Heparin or 0.9% sodium chloride to maintain central venous catheter patency: A randomized trial

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1820-1826

  Schallom, Marilyn E ^a   Prentice, Donna ^a   Sona, Carrie ^a   Micek, Scott T ^a   Skrupky, Lee P ^a  

^a BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

catheterization; central venous; flushing; heparin; sodium chloride; vascular patency

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VASCULAR PATENCY; VENOUS RETURN; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; FEMALE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 84861530674     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31824e11b4     Document Type: Article

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