Objectives: This study describes our experience using PICC in patients submitted to autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) regarding the time of use, withdrawal reasons, and complications.
 Methods: A retrospective cohort 143 from 2017 2019, with a inserted before ASCT. 
 Results: Regarding baseline disease, 104 (73%) had multiple myeloma. The median days use was 15 (1 – 37) per cathe...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effect on needed nursing time for dressing change. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS A parallel-group, open-label, randomised controlled trial in patients who are in need for a peripherally inserted central catheter insertion in one teaching hospital in Belgium. The follow-up lasted 180 days or until catheter removal, whatever came first. A computer generated table was us...

Peripherally-inserted central catheters (PICC) are long catheters inserted into one of the major veins in the antecubital fossa, or upper arm, and advanced into the central veins. The tip is located in the lower superior vena cava (SVC) (National Association of Vascular Access Networks [NAVAN], 1998; Royal College of Nursing [RCN], 2003; Infusion Nurses Society, 2006). Since the creation of the...

INTRODUCTION Peripherally inserted central venous catheters (PICC) are widely used in cancer patients and ultrasound-guided PICC insertion could improve success rate. The tip position of the catheter should be located at the border of lower one-third of the superior vena cava (SVC) and cavo-atrial junction. The migration is malposition at the late stage after PICCs were inserted, and catheter m...

BACKGROUND Central venous catheters (CVCs) have been an effective access for chemotherapy instead of peripherally intravenous catheters. There were limited studies on the choices and effects of different types of CVCs for chemotherapy. The aim of this study was to compare the complications, cost, and patients' quality of life and satisfaction of three commonly used CVCs for chemotherapy, such a...