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Intravenous catheterization. --- Access, Vascular --- Angioaccess --- Vascular access --- Veins --- Venous catheterization --- Catheterization --- Intravenous therapy

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Since their first application in 1982, Totally Implantable Venous Access Devices (TIVADs) have become increasingly important in the clinical practice, as more intensive chemotherapy and parenteral treatments have come into use. At this time, there is objective evidence that TIVADs are a safe, effective strategy for long-term venous access; they play a significant role throughout the management of the oncology patient, as they are needed in the initial phases for active treatments as well as in the last stages for palliative measures, making possible repeated administration of chemotherapeutic vesicant agents, nutrients, antibiotics, analgesics, and blood products. According to a number of prospective studies, use of TIVADs is associated with a significant complication rate (10% to 25% of all patients). Evidence-based data support that most complications are directly related to inappropriate technique of placement and/or nursing care, sometimes leading to TIVAD loss, significant morbidity, increased duration of hospitalization, and additional medical cost. A group of world-renowned experts - both in the clinical and research fields – contributed to this volume, whose aim is to provide clinicians, nurses and medical students with a multidisciplinary, full update on these devices, as long term central venous access can no be longer considered a routine matter, and serious complications can be maintained at a very low level only if strict adherence to a well-defined protocol of surgical technique and of catheter care is maintained.

Blood-vessels -- Cutdown. --- Catheterization, Central Venous -- methods. --- Catheterization, Central Venous. --- Intravenous catheterization --- Pathologic Processes --- Health Occupations --- Catheterization --- Investigative Techniques --- Diseases --- Endovascular Procedures --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Therapeutics --- Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Surgical Procedures, Minimally Invasive --- Vascular Surgical Procedures --- Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures --- Surgical Procedures, Operative --- Neoplasms --- Catheterization, Central Venous --- Postoperative Complications --- Methods --- Nursing --- Medicine --- Surgery & Anesthesiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Cardiovascular Diseases --- Surgery - General and By Type --- Intravenous catheterization. --- Access, Vascular --- Angioaccess --- Vascular access --- Veins --- Venous catheterization --- Medicine. --- Radiology. --- Internal medicine. --- Surgery. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Internal Medicine. --- Imaging / Radiology. --- Intravenous therapy --- Radiology, Medical. --- Clinical radiology --- Radiology, Medical --- Radiology (Medicine) --- Medical physics --- Medicine, Internal --- Surgery, Primitive --- Radiological physics --- Physics --- Radiation

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Transcatheter aortic valve implantation and percutaneous mitral valve repair have now been demonstrated to be credible alternatives to surgery in high-risk patients. The interest in these techniques is such that further significant technological changes are expected over the next few years. This revolution is already underway, rendering much prior knowledge obsolete. The success of the first edition of Percutaneous Treatment of Left Side Cardiac Valves has convinced us of the need to update the book in order to keep pace with the rapid and dynamic evolution in the discipline. Once again, this practical guide is designed to provide the reader with complete state of the art information on the techniques and approaches to percutaneous treatment of left side cardiac valve disease. Numerous images will help the reader to understand in detail the steps of each procedure. The potential complications and expected or potential morbidity from each procedure are discussed in depth, and the best ways to manage them are carefully explained. The book is also intended as a reference covering the up-to-date knowledge contained in the literature on the application of transcatheter techniques to cardiac valves.

Aortic valve -- Transplantation. --- Mitral valve -- Surgery. --- Cardiac Surgical Procedures --- Therapeutics --- Heart Diseases --- Investigative Techniques --- Prosthesis Implantation --- Surgical Procedures, Operative --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures --- Cardiovascular Diseases --- Thoracic Surgical Procedures --- Diseases --- Catheterization --- Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation --- Heart Valve Diseases --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Aortic valve --- Mitral valve --- Transplantation. --- Surgery. --- Mitral valvotomy --- Mitral valvulotomy --- Valva aortae --- Medicine. --- Cardiology. --- Cardiac surgery. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Cardiac Surgery. --- Heart valves --- Heart --- Internal medicine --- Cardiac surgery --- Open-heart surgery --- Surgery