"Guidewire Intravenous Catheter Systems Do Not Improve First-Pass Success Rates for Peripheral Access When Placed By Army Combat Medics (68W) in a Pre-hospital Setting." A Prospective, Randomized Controlled Trial with Crossover Study Design.

Conclusions: There was not a statistically significant improvement in the first-pass success rate of intravenous placement with the use of the guidewire catheter when compared with the standard-issue catheter. With these results, we cannot recommend the guidewire catheter to be used in leu of the standard catheter. Further studies might show improvement if subjects are allotted increased practice and familiarity with the new guidewire device. PMID: 29800299 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Military Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research