Bloodstream Infections
Catheterized Patients Require Careful Management
Published in Cancer Weekly, February 1st, 2000
Patients frequently experience infectious complications following Hickman-Broviac (H-B) catheter insertion.
S. C. Stamou and colleagues retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 164 children with malignancies who underwent H-B catheter insertion from March 1, 1988 to December 31, 1997 ("Hickman-Broviac catheter-related infections in children with malignancies," Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, 1999;66(5-6):320-326).
During a 35,697 catheter-day period, 77...
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