Adequate treatment for uremic patients on hemodialysis requires valid and lasting access to central vessels.
The Central Venous Catheter (CVC) as a mean of immediate access is indispensable in all acute cases where it has not been possible to prepare an AVF in time and when the peripheral vascularization is highly compromised. We present our investigation on the best access route to central vessels and the selection of the type of catheters to adopt in different conditions.
On the basis of complications arising during the catheter life especially as permanent access, it seems to us that the right internal jugular catheterization with the 2 Tesio catheters Kit is the more useful and less dangerous catheterization.
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