Description
Central venous access devices (CVADs) are used within both hospital and community health care settings to administer blood or fluid to monitor central venous pressure and to provide long term access for repeat transfusion of blood or blood products, chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition and antibiotic therapy. This book provides a basic understanding of care and management of CVADs for student nurses, newly qualified nurses and more experienced nurses who are unfamiliar in dealing with these devices. It covers patient assessment, appropriate device selection, insertion, care and management of CVADs- including peripherally inserted central catheters, non tunnelled central venous catheters, skin tunnelled catheters and implanted ports.
