[Use of central venous catheters in newborns, with low and extremely low birth weight. Guidelines and recommendations].

As a result of a national survey we have proposed guidelines and recommendations for techniques of central veins catheterization in newborns. This procedure is widely used in every day clinical practice in neonatal intensive care units. Standards, which are being introduced, should make management of sick newborns uniform, especially in LBW and ELBW infants.