Using normal saline to lock peripheral intravenous catheters in ambulatory cancer patients

Journal of Intravenous Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 75-78

  Kamitomo, Valerie ^a   Olson, Karin ^a  

^a CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; COMPETENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; METASTASIS; NURSING; PHLEBITIS;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THROMBOPHLEBITIS;

EID: 0029864031     PISSN: 08965846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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