Knowledge of Central Venous Pressure Line (CVP) among Nursing Personnel working at Critical Care areas of a Tertiary Health Care Centre in Eastern Nepal.

Abstract

Monitoring of the Central Venous Pressure (CVP) is a simple, relatively inexpensive method of assessing a patient’s cardiac status, circulating blood volume, and vasomotor tone. It is a measure of considerable value in patients with cardiac, vascular pulmonary, renal, or other acute problems, for regulation of fluid or blood administration and it is essential that all physicians and nurses working in critical care setting be fully aware about it (Thomas, 1972)^. Objective: To assess the knowledge of CVP line among nursing personnel working in critical care areas (i.e. Intensive Care Unit /Coronary Care Unit and Dialysis Unit) of Tertiary Health Care Center. For this study a descriptive research design and enumerative sampling technique was used. Semi structured tool was developed for data collection. The critical care areas (i.e. ICCU/CCU and Dialysis Unit) were chosen for study. The findings revealed that majority (96%) of respondents had knowledge of CVP line, 60% had knowledge about main insertion site of Central Venous Catheter, 98% had knowledge about the anatomy and physiology of heart for Central Venous Catheter, and 94% had the knowledge about the purpose of CVP catheterization. Based on the findings it is concluded that nursing personnel in general have knowledge regarding CVP Line.