Is it help full since guide wire always gets stuck in neonates while advancing... No matter how many punctures in a vein are made guide wire fails to advance..
Its used in Cardiology for vascular access to do angiography, stenting the coronaries, to insert temporary pacemaker, to insert intra aortic ballon pump, TAVI and many more in interventional radiology... there's a long list
yes... since in neonates the venous lumen is very small... the needle may get displaced while inserting the guide wire... to avoid it a fine catheter is inserted first... followed by guide wire insertion...
Actually when catheter is again advanced over guid wire is desired catheter with desired shape quality etc and catherer removed before is disposable catheter that comes with needle ...