TY - JOUR T1 - Repeated intravenous cannula insertion attempts in neonates JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed SP - 568 LP - 570 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2021-322538 VL - 107 IS - 5 AU - Clement Trinh AU - Marta Thio AU - Sally Moss AU - Michelle McGennisken AU - Peter G Davis Y1 - 2022/09/01 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/107/5/568.1.abstract N2 - Peripheral intravenous cannula (PIVC) insertion is one of the most common invasive procedures performed in the neonatal unit but has a low first attempt success rate (45%–47%).1 2 Multiple insertion attempts are associated with an increased risk of infection.3 No studies to date have examined success rates across repeated attempts by a single operator, and whether a rescue operator is more likely to successfully insert a PIVC following unsuccessful attempts by an initial operator.The primary outcomes of our single-centre prospective, observational study at a tertiary level neonatal unit were the probability of PIVC insertion success by a single primary operator, and the probability of PIVC insertion success by a ‘rescue’ operator following unsuccessful attempts by a primary operator.All neonates (n=339) who had a PIVC (n=616) inserted from June to December 2020 were eligible. Patient demographic data are detailed in table 1. Following each attempted PIVC … ER -