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    "pk": 10783,
    "title": "Radial Arterial Lines Have a Higher Failure Rate than Femoral",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Introduction:\n Arterial lines are important for monitoring critically ill patients. They are placed most commonly in either femoral or radial sites, though there is little evidence to guide site preference.\nMethods:\n This is an ambispective, observational, cohort study to determine variance in failure rates between femoral and radial arterial lines. This study took place from 2012 to 2016 and included all arterial lines placed in adult patients at a single institution. Causes of line failure were defined as inaccuracy, blockage, site issue, or accidental removal. The primary outcome was line failure by location. Secondary outcomes included time to failure and cause of failure.\nResults:\n We evaluated 272 arterial lines over both arms of the study. Fifty-eight lines eventually failed (21.32%). Femoral lines failed less often in both retrospective (5.36% vs 30.71%) and prospective (5.41% vs. 25.64%) arms. The absolute risk reduction of line failure in the femoral site was 20.2% (95% confidence interval [3.7 - 36.2%]). Failures occurred sooner in radial sites compared to femoral. Infection was not a significant cause of removal in our femoral cohort.\nConclusion:\n Femoral arterial lines fail much less often then radial arterial lines. If placed preferentially in the femoral artery, one line failure would be prevented for every fourth line.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Arterial line, Line failure"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Patient Safety",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1sc971dk",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Matthew",
            "middle_name": "R.",
            "last_name": "Greer",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Kern Medical, Bakersfield, Department of Emergency Medicine, Bakersfield, California",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Scott",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Carney",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Kern Medical, Bakersfield, Department of Emergency Medicine, Bakersfield, California",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Rick",
            "middle_name": "A.",
            "last_name": "McPheeters",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Kern Medical, Bakersfield, Department of Emergency Medicine, Bakersfield, California",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Phillip",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Aguiniga",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Kern Medical, Emergency Medicine Assistant Program, Bakersfield, California",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Stephanie",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Rubio",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Kern Medical, Emergency Medicine Assistant Program, Bakersfield, California",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jason",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lee",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Kern Medical, Emergency Medicine Assistant Program, Bakersfield, California",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2017-05-01T13:44:43Z",
    "date_accepted": "2017-05-01T13:44:43Z",
    "date_published": "2018-02-20T18:56:56Z",
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}