Ambulating with pulmonary artery or femoral catheters in place.

摘要

Data are currently insufficient to build a standard or policy for strategies related to safe, effective ambulation of patients with pulmonary artery or femoral catheters. Generally, reports of complications from cannulation of the internal jugular, subclavian, and femoral veins as well as the femoral artery focus on events during insertion of catheters, not on subsequent events associated with catheter manipulation or with patients' movement or activity. Although some reports12 describe increased risk of infection with femorally inserted catheters as opposed to catheters inserted via the subclavian or jugular vein, none of these reports detail whether catheters are manipulated via patients' activity.