Catheter Type, Placement, and Insertion Techniques for Preventing Catheter-Related Infections in Maintenance Peritoneal Dialysis Patients: Summary of a Cochrane Review

Catheter-related infections, including peritonitis and exit-site/tunnel infections, can lead to technique failure or even mortality in patients treated with peritoneal dialysis (PD).1 Strategies to prevent these adverse infectious events from occurring in the earliest stages of the PD journey, including use of alternative catheter implantation techniques2 or catheter designs,3,4 have been explored in a number of studies.5,6