Journal of emergency nursing : JEN : official publication of the Emergency Department Nurses Association
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Meta Analysis
Nurses and Efficacy of Ultrasound-guided Versus Traditional Venous Access: A Systemic Review and Meta-analysis.
Ultrasound-guided venous cannulation is an increasingly popular tool for peripheral intravenous catheter placement among nursing providers as opposed to standard of care landmark-based placement methods. This systematic review and meta-analysis assessed the use of ultrasound-guided versus landmark-based catheter cannulation among nursing providers across existing literature. ⋯ This study demonstrated the advantage of nurses' ultrasound-guided venous cannulation over landmark-based cannulation methods for first successful placement, although other outcomes were not significantly different between methods. Additional multisite studies with adequately powered sample sizes are necessary to confirm these findings.