Ultrasound-guided intravenous access in adults using SonoStik^®, a novel encapsulated sterile guidewire: A prospective cohort trial

Abstract

This study demonstrated that emergency department technicians skilled in ultrasound-guided intravenous access could successfully place SonoStik 83.3% of the time in vessels that were unable to be palpated or visualized. Compared to standard ultrasound intravenous cannulation, the odds ratio of successful cannulation with SonoStik was 0.91 (95% confidence interval = 0.04-17.5). In all cases, the time required to successfully insert SonoStik was less than 4 min from tourniquet application to catheter advancement to hub, with a mean time of less than 2.5 min.

Long peripheral catheters for intravenous access in adults and children: A systematic review of the literature

“…Of these, 27 articles met the initial inclusion criteria. Following assessment of full-text documents, 11 articles were excluded: six studies [6][7][8][9][10][11] used guidewire-inserted PIVCs, two studies 12,13 used standard PIVCs, one study 14 did not report the number of LPCs used and one study 15 did not report the number of patients investigated. A final study 16 was excluded as the authors primarily described LPCs placed in the internal jugular vein (95.1%) -a decision was made to exclude this article as the results would be difficult to compare with LPCs placed in limb veins.…”