Peripherally inserted central catheter-related complications in cancer patients: a prospective study of over 50,000 catheter days

New article on PICC related complications in cancer patients from the Journal of Vascular Access

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Peripheral IV standards in pediatrics October 28, 2021
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"The narrative nursing model can remarkably improve the nursing effect, alleviate the anxiety, and provide a more quality nursing for tumor patients with PICC under chemotherapy" Xu et al (2021).
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Home parenteral nutrition October 28, 2021
"We aimed to determine how the underlying diagnosis, complications and survival had changed over the last 36 years in the UK's largest IF centre" Oke et al (2021).
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