Description

The majority of all hospitalized children require placement ofavascular access device to receive medications, forlife-savingtherapies and blood tests. But vascular access decisionmaking inpediatric patients remains a complex, highly variableprocess. TheMichigan Appropriateness Guide for IntravascularCatheters inPediatrics (miniMAGIC) provides evidence-based guidanceonintravenous catheter selection, device characteristicsandinsertion technique – from umbilical catheters to totallyimplantedvenous devices – in pediatric patients, across a range ofclinicalindications.