The delivery of total parenteral nutrition to premature infants has been a major advance in neonatal intensive care. Ideally, total parenteral nutrition fluids should be given through a central venous catheter, but insertion of such a catheter may be a very difficult procedure in small neonates. We describe a new technique that improves the success rate of central venous catheterization in premature infants. (Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition17:479-480, 1993)
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