Protocol for the implantation of a venous access device (Port-A-Cath System). The complications and solutions found in 560 cases

Clinical and Translational Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 735-741

  Sánchez, Luis Yeste ^a   Galbis Caravajal, José M ^b   Fuster Diana, Carlos A ^c   Eiras, Enrique Moledo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL POVISA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA RIBERA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE ONCOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cannulation of veins; Port a Cath; Venous access device

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANNULATION; CATHETER COMPLICATION; CATHETER INFECTION; CEPHALIC VEIN; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBOLISM; EXTRAVASATION; FOLLOW UP; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERIPHERAL VEIN; PNEUMOTHORAX; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCHOOL CHILD; VASCULAR ACCESS DEVICE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; INDWELLING CATHETER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SKIN ULCER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TIME;

POLYURETHAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EMBOLISM; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOTHORAX; POLYURETHANES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SKIN ULCER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38849166979     PISSN: 1699048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12094-006-0120-y     Document Type: Article

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