An analysis of long-term venous access catheters in cancer patients: Experience from a tertiary care centre in India

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 21-24

  Shukla, N K ^a   Das, D K ^b   Deo, S V ^b   Raina, V ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Hickman catheter; Open cutdown method; Prolonged central venous access

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIBIOTIC; BLOOD DERIVATIVE; SILASTIC;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL CATHETERIZATION; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INDWELLING CATHETER; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; LEUKEMIA; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OVARY CARCINOMA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; TIME; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ADULT; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CHILD; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0036068734     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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