Children's veins are small and sometimes difficult to access during necessary medical treatment. When caregivers used ultrasound to guide placement of intravenous (IV) lines in children with presumed ...

Children's veins are small and sometimes difficult to access during necessary medical treatment. When caregivers used ultrasound to guide placement of intravenous (IV) lines in children with presumed ...

The following text provides a summary of the teaching points that appear in the video. Placement of peripheral intravenous (IV) catheters is a fundamental skill that all health care professionals ...

Vascular access is the most commonly performed invasive procedure in medicine, with 200 million peripheral intravenous (PIV) catheters placed annually in U.S. hospitals to administer fluids, ...

While cardiac and pulmonary POCUS are common, MSK and vascular POCUS remain underutilized despite their significant benefits in various clinical scenarios.

April 27, 2012 (Phoenix, Arizona) — The rate of inappropriately placed central venous catheters (CVCs) substantially declines when residents and emergency department (ED) technicians are trained to ...

St. Joseph's Healthcare System, located in Paterson, is drastically improving patient experiences with its first-of-its-kind sterile ultrasound-guided Vascular Access Program, which increases the ...

In 2016, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) issued a policy statement advocating a new safety goal for vascular access: the “one-stick standard.” To help clinicians achieve it, ACEP ...

In some patients, inserting intravenous catheters is a painful and tricky affair. Nurse anesthetist Rick van Loon of Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven has developed a technique that dramatically ...

BOTHELL, Wash., November 19, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FUJIFILM Sonosite, Inc., a global leader in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) solutions, announces the launch of PIV Assist, a new AI-powered feature ...

New Technology in Intravenous Access Training Compatible With Ultrasound Imaging for Realistic Education SEATTLE, WA / ACCESSWIRE / July 23, 2024 / Simulab Corporation, a leading healthcare simulation ...