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Experience with the Hickman Catheter: Unusual Complications and Suggestions for Their Prevention
Author(s) -
Wagman Lawrence D.,
Neifeld James P.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.935
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1941-2444
pISSN - 0148-6071
DOI - 10.1177/0148607186010003311
Subject(s) - medicine , catheter , parenteral nutrition , lumen (anatomy) , enteral administration , surgery , intensive care medicine
With the expanding clinical use of the Hickman catheter, new complications have emerged. This report describes two such complications: one in an adult with postplacement malposition and a second in a child with a ballooning double‐lumen catheter. The risk of postplacement malposition can be reduced by placing the catheter's tunnel as medial as possible; the risk of material malfunction can be reduced by careful quality control and careful surgical technique. ( Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition 10 :311–315, 1986)