Anthony A. Bavry, M.D., M.P.H. Intensive care unit patients who required acute renal replacement therapy were randomized to catheterization in the jugular vein (n = 375) or the femoral vein (n = 375).

and tended to decrease the time spent accessing the internal jugular vein (mean difference in minutes –1.04, 95% confidence interval –2.85, 0.04). However, there was no statistically ...