Guidelines for Application of Central Venous Catheters in Pediatric ICU of Assiut University Children Hospital (Clinical Audit)

Abstract

The earliest pioneers of central venous catheterization in humans were Werner Forssmann, André Cournand and Dickinson Richards who jointly shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for Medicine. The first to report the use of a catheter in humans for obtaining mixed venous blood for the measurement of right atrial pressure or cardiac output were Cournand and Ranges (1941). They mentioned Forssmann (1929) as the originator of central venous catheterisation technique [2] . Conclusion:We need to stick with the international guidelines as a reference standard and proper catheter maintenance care to decrease the frequency of complication mainly displacement and catheter-related infections.