Femoral lines might not be so bad after all for infection risk
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"We've got to get that femoral line out of there!" The attending's face as he says it shadowed with a simmer of fear, a dash of anger. How could the moonlighter have been so incompetent or lazy as to choose the benighted femoral site for a central venous line when the internal jugular and subclavian were available? Why, it's virtually guaranteed that line will get infected, and soon! And what will the team coming on tomorrow think, if I don't change that line out today? That attending was me, and I was only trying to do what I was taught so forcefully during training, and what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Infectious Disease Societies of America (IDSA) still command: "avoidance of the femoral vein" being their
Femoral lines might not be so bad after all for infection risk
Femoral lines might not be so bad after all…
Femoral lines might not be so bad after all for infection risk
"We've got to get that femoral line out of there!" The attending's face as he says it shadowed with a simmer of fear, a dash of anger. How could the moonlighter have been so incompetent or lazy as to choose the benighted femoral site for a central venous line when the internal jugular and subclavian were available? Why, it's virtually guaranteed that line will get infected, and soon! And what will the team coming on tomorrow think, if I don't change that line out today? That attending was me, and I was only trying to do what I was taught so forcefully during training, and what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Infectious Disease Societies of America (IDSA) still command: "avoidance of the femoral vein" being their