The parent, child and young person experience of difficult venous access and recommendations for clinical practice: A qualitative descriptive study.

Aims And Objectives: Explore the parent and child/young person experience of difficult venous access and identify ideas and preferences for changes to clinical practice.

Background: Peripheral intravenous catheter insertion is one of the most common invasive procedures in hospitalised paediatric patients. Multiple insertion attempts in paediatric patients are common and associated with pain and distress.

Infant peripherally inserted central catheter insertion without general anesthesia.

Background: Avoiding anesthesia for infant peripherally inserted central catheter insertion beyond the neonatal period has been the subject of very little research despite this being a high-risk age group. In our institution, we introduced a "Fast, Feed, and Wrap" technique, previously described for magnetic resonance imaging scans, for infants up to 6 months and weighing under 5.5 kg undergoing peripherally inserted central catheter insertion.