How often are patients experiencing local and catheter-related bloodstream infections within an adult population? A systematic review of peripheral venous catheter complications and failure

摘要

Introduction: Peripheral intravenous catheters are essential to modernhealthcare and the most frequently used vascular access device, butsystem-wide understanding of complications is lacking. The aim of thissystematic review was to summarize and quantify peripheral intravenouscatheter failure and individual catheter-related complications, includinglocal and catheter-related bloodstream infections.