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Central Venous Lines in Pediatric Practice

Dear Colleague,

You are invited to take part in this international Survey about practices in central venous line placement. This study will explore personal experiences and habits with central venous lines placement, position check and common complications encountered.

Completing this questionnaire is entirely voluntary, and it will last not more than 6 minutes. You can decide not to complete the questionnaire at any time for any reason if you wish to do so.  

The questionnaire is anonymous, and the responses will be kept strictly confidential. We will ask you about your hospital name and city and your professional role, for the aim of the survey, but these data will not be made public nor be associated to your name. Your answer should describe your personal experience. Your unidentified responses may be pooled with other respondents and published. By completing this questionnaire, you are providing your consent for your responses to be used in this way.  

Thank you for taking the time to complete our questionnaire. We truly value your input and hope we can update you about the results of this questionnaire as soon as possible. Please let us know if you have any questions or comments at this email address: anna.camporesi@gmail.com
Many thanks  

1.Please write the name of your Town and Country
2.Please write the name of your hospital
3.Do you work in
4.What is your specialty
5.Which is your position?
6.How many years of experience do you have?
7.Which specialist is in charge of placing the central lines in your hospital? (more than one answer is allowed)
8.How many years of experience in central lines cannulation do you have?
9.How many pediatric short-term central lines do you insert every year, in average?
10.Which is your preferred site of cannulation in case of short-term central lines?
11.Do you insert long-term (tunneled and/or implanted) catheters?
12.If yes, how many per year?
13.What is your preferred site in case of long-term cannulation?
14.Do you usually cannulate the vein using
15.Do you usually check catheter's position at the time of insertion with (more than one answer is possible)
16.If you perform a chest radiography every time a central line is placed, do you perform it
17.If you perform a chest radiography every time a central line is placed, which is the main concern driving your decision (more than one answer is possible)
18.Wich is the most frequent early complication occurring in your hospital after the insertion of central lines?
19.Which system do you usually use to secure the catheter?
20.Do you usually insert PICC (peripherally inserted central catheters) from arm's veins in children?
21.If yes, for which indications? (more than one answer is allowed)
22.Do you consider the weight or the age as a limit to insert a PICC?
23.Do you systematically use midline catheters and long peripheral cannulas in children?
24.Do you consider the weight or the age as a limit to insert midline/long cannulas?
We would be grateful if you could provide us your email address, in case we need to confirm some answers or for future collaborations! It won’t be provided in the final manuscript nor made available to others. We appreciate the effort you made to help us and thank you for your time.
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