A catheter being administered to a patient PhD student Tricia Kleidon Hope is on the horizon for sick children requiring intravenous canulation to administer medication, with a Griffith University-led randomised controlled trial providing evidence about the most effective type of catheter to use. Led by Griffith University PhD student Tricia Kleidon, the study has recently been published in JAMA Pediatrics and compared peripheral intravenous catheters which are short, thin tubes inserted into the upper and lower limbs, and midline catheters which are a longer alternative and are inserted in an upper arm vein with the catheter tip ending just before the axillar or shoulder joint where there is increased blood flow.

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