Safe use of Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters for chemotherapy of solid malignancies in adult patients: A 1-year monocentric, prospectively-assessed, unselected cohort of 482 patients.

CONCLUSION: This large prospective study supports the increasing use of PICCs in adult oncology outpatients treated in specialized centers with chemotherapy for non-hematological malignancies. In this clinical setting, PICC failure occurred in 6% only of the inserted devices. PMID: 33019880 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33019880?dopt=Abstract

Source: The Journal of Vascular Access - October 8, 2020 Category: Surgery Tags: J Vasc Access Source Type: research