Cigdem Ozpolat

A Comparison of 18-Gauge and 20-Gauge Short Peripheral Catheters in Terms of Pain and Procedural Difficulty: A Randomized Controlled Trial in the Emergency Department

Background and Objectives: Clinicians often default to the narrower short peripheral catheter (SPC), believing wider catheters to be more painful and harder to insert. One previous randomized trial found no difference, but it neither selected patients by measured access risk nor...