The purpose of the great vein is delivery of blood from the ankle, lower leg, and thigh to the femoral vein. Along its length are 10 to 20 one-way valves that keep the blood from flowing back ...

The femoral vein should then be inspected from this point downward for several centimeters —well below the entrance of the profunda femoris. It will usually be surrounded by scar tissue and will ...

Anthony A. Bavry, M.D., M.P.H. Intensive care unit patients who required acute renal replacement therapy were randomized to catheterization in the jugular vein (n = 375) or the femoral vein (n ...

For the study, researchers randomly assigned 3,027 patients to have catheters placed in one of three locations: nontunneled central venous catheterization to the subclavian, jugular, or femoral vein.

The RESPECT study included 420 patients at 20 U.S. centers, comparing VASCADE to manual compression for femoral arterial closure, the current standard of care for vascular closure for patients ...

The objective of this study was to compare the analgesic effects of oral glucose 30%, milk or sucking on a pacifier and the synergistic analgesic effect of glucose 30%, milk and teats at femoral ...