Safety of Administration of Vasopressors Through Peripheral Compared to Central Venous Catheters in a Rural Kenyan Hospital: Protocol for a Prospective Observational Cohort Study

Grace Hezi Gao   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Brian Kimani   ^{2 *} , ECCCO ;   Linette Lepore   ² , MD ;   Zahra Aghababa   ³ , MA ;   Hannah Gitura   ² , ECCCO ;   Michael Kinuthia   ⁴ , PECCCO ;   Jack Musau   ⁴ , PECCCO ;   Judy Muthoki   ² , ECCCO ;   Alice Mwonge   ² , ECCCO ;   Fredrick Ndibaru   ² , ECCCO ;   Ann Viola Ndubi   ⁴ , MD ;   Juliah Ndungu   ² , RN ;   Kinzi Nixon   ⁴ , PECCCO ;   Moses Odhiambo   ⁵ , BSc ;   Winslet Okari   ² , ECCCO ;   Benjamin Thairu   ² , ECCCO ;   Lilian Vihenda   ² , CCN ;   Rachel M Wojcik   ⁶ , MD ;   B Jason Brotherton   ^{1, 7} , MD ;   Kristina E Rudd   ³ , MD

¹ Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

² Department of Medicine, AIC Kijabe Hospital, Kijabe, Kenya

³ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Center for Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

⁴ Department of Pediatrics, AIC Kijabe Hospital, Kijabe, Kenya

⁵ Department of Research, AIC Kijabe Hospital, Kijabe, Kenya

⁶ Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

⁷ Department of Border and Global Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States

*these authors contributed equally