Vascular Access in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients with Obesity
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- title
- Vascular Access in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients with Obesity
- author
- Halvorson, Elizabeth Eby
- abstract
- Background: Pediatric obesity is associated with poor outcomes for hospitalized children. Vascular access is essential in critically ill patients. Our aim was to evaluate whether critically ill patients with obesity are more likely to undergo CVC insertion and develop related complications.
- subject
- Critical Care
- Obesity
- Pediatrics
- contributor
- Skelton, Joseph A (committee chair)
- McCrory, Michael C (committee member)
- Case, Doug (committee member)
- date
- 2017-01-14T09:35:22Z (accessioned)
- 2019-01-13T09:30:09Z (available)
- 2016 (issued)
- degree
- Clinical and Population Translational Sciences (discipline)
- embargo
- 2019-01-13 (terms)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/64181 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- type
- Thesis