The correlation between weight gain and PICC tip shift in the very low birth weight infants.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) is one of the important ways to maintain nutrition in premature infants, especially for very low birth weight infants. There are studies have shown that as premature babies grow up after birth, the tip of the PICC will shift away from the heart. When the catheter remove from the central vein, the risk of complications is suddenly increased. Therefore, it is important to predict the position of catheter tip.

Methods

Select the very low birth weight infant (VLBW) infants who used PICC in our hospital from April 2017 to August 2018. And we recorded the birth weight, the weight and the position of the catheter tip of the each filming day, and calculated the rate and speed of weight gain during this period. The correlation

SUBMITTER: Zhang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7658776 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature