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Central venous access has wide and clinically significant applications spanning long-term access for dialysis and chemotherapy, to shorter-term access for treatment or monitoring of acutely or critically ill patients. Selection of the appropriate access site and catheter type is dependent on the reason for the access, the planned length and frequency of use, and patient considerations both technical and cosmetic. This chapter provides a reference for key factors involved in evaluating patients who require central venous access, as well as the appropriate site and type of access based on the indications and contraindications, materials needed, procedural methods, complications, and seminal research on the topic.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Imaging Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Gaurav Gadodia

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  1. The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, ON, Canada

    Rajat Chand

  2. Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Adam E. M. Eltorai

  3. Brown University, East Providence, RI, USA

    Terrance Healey

  4. Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    Sun Ahn

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Gadodia, G. (2022). Central Venous Access. In: Chand, R., Eltorai, A.E.M., Healey, T., Ahn, S. (eds) Essential Interventional Radiology Review. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84172-0_24

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