Diva Scale

Iii iv the inability to detect a dilated vein by palpation and or visualization.

Diva scale. Development of the a diva scale. And v the diameter of the. The receiver operating characteristic roc curve area under the curve auc in the validation subset was 0 94. Ii expected difficult intravenous access by the healthcare professional prior to an attempt at pivc insertion.

Diva 5 asks about the presence of adhd symptoms in adulthood as well as childhood the chronicity of these symptoms and significant impairments due to these symptoms. Dutch trial register ref. I the patient s history of difficult intravenous access. The ea diva score was devised with a score ranging from 0 to 12.

Diva 5 has been adjusted for children age 5 17 young diva 5 and for people with intellectual disability diva 5 id. The additive 5 variable a diva scale is a reliable predictive rule that implies the probability to identify patients with a difficult intravenous access prospectively. Diva gis is a free computer program for mapping and geographic data analysis a geographic information system gis. With diva gis you can make maps of the world or of a very small area using for example state boundaries rivers a satellite image and the locations of sites where an animal species was observed.

This additive a diva scale implies the prediction of the likelihood of a difficult intravenous access in adult patients prospectively based on. Francken and is the successor of the earlier semi structured interview for adhd in adults2 3. The five variable additive a diva scale is a reliable and generalizable predictive scale to identify patients at risk of difficult intravenous access. The diagnostic interview for adhd in adults diva the diva is based on the dsm iv criteria and is the first structured dutch interview for adhd in adults.

Placement of a peripheral intravenous catheter is a routine procedure in clinical practice but failure of intravenous cannulation regularly occurs. A clinical predictive scale to identify difficult intravenous access in adult patients based on clinical observations. Deriving from the initial a diva scale developed in a cohort of surgical patients the modified a diva scale can be applied across clinical settings and patient cohorts basing its assessment on five items. The diva has been developed by j j s.

A higher score on the a diva scale indicates a higher risk of difficult intravenous access.