Axillary vein puncture guided by ultrasound, using a readily learned technique, was superior to cephalic vein dissection via cut-down for implantation of cardiac device leads in a small, multicenter, ...

Uncovering the shocking statistics (800,000 medical workers in 1998 were suffering from hypodermic needle accidents resulting in hepatitis C and AIDS), Mark Weiss was aghast to discover a safety ...

This was a retrospective study. All enrolled patients were recruited from the second affiliated hospital of Nanchang University from February 2009 to December 2020. Ethics Committee of the Second ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a meta-analysis of venous access techniques for implantation of cardiac implantable electronic devices, ...

Primary aldosteronism (PA) is one of the most common types of secondary hypertension, accounting for about 4–7% of all newly diagnosed hypertensive patients 1. Among them, idiopathic adrenal ...

Nurses Tracey Hagan-O’Connor, left, and Wendy Poole demonstrate one of the vein viewers at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. (Submitted by the QEH Foundation) Patients who have experienced pain or anxiety ...