Port-A-Cath placement without the aid of fluoroscopy or localizing devices: A community hospital series

Cancer Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 157-159

  LaBella, Gennaro ^a   Kerlakian, George ^a   Muck, Patrick ^a   Chung, David ^a   Vaughan, Aislinn ^a   Ritchison, Andrew ^a  

^a GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluoroscopy; Localization devices; Port A Cath; Port A Cath placement

Indexed keywords

CATHETERIZATION; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; JUGULAR VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; SURGEON; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; ARTICLE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL COST; INDWELLING CATHETER; METHODOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FLUOROSCOPY; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33749568995     PISSN: 15289117     EISSN: 1540336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00130404-200503000-00012     Document Type: Review

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