Obesity is not associated with increased difficulty placing peripheral IVs in trauma activation patients

Obesity is not associated with increased difficulty placing peripheral IVs in trauma activation patients

In your fifth paragraph, you suggested it would have been interesting “to explore the relationship between perceived IV placement skill level and number of clinic years in a trauma center”. [...]we can understand how our comment, “73% of our subjects arrived with at least one peripheral IV, allowing...

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Published in:The American journal of emergency medicine Vol. 38; no. 10; pp. 2228 - 2229
Main Authors: Barksdale, Aaron Nathan, Goede, Matthew, Madden, Scott, Campos, Abraham, High, Robin
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01-10-2020
Elsevier Limited
Subjects:
Catheterization, Peripheral
Emergency medical care
Humans
IV placement
Nurses
Obesity
Obesity - complications
Patients
Trauma
Ultrasonic imaging
Veins & arteries
Obesity
Trauma
IV placement
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Summary:In your fifth paragraph, you suggested it would have been interesting “to explore the relationship between perceived IV placement skill level and number of clinic years in a trauma center”. [...]we can understand how our comment, “73% of our subjects arrived with at least one peripheral IV, allowing the assumption that prehospital personnel had already utilized one of the more visible and accessible peripheral veins”, could provoke some argument [1]. [...]in 73% of our subjects, one of these veins had already been accessed.
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ISSN:0735-6757
1532-8171
DOI:10.1016/j.ajem.2020.06.057