British Journal of Cancer - Hickman catheter and implantable port devices for the delivery of chemotherapy: ... There were 30 line occlusions, 19 in 15 Hickman patients and 11 in 6 TIVAS patients.

Dr. Robert O. Hickman, a pediatric nephrologist and inventor of a catheter that revolutionized care for cancer patients, died on April 4. He was 92. In the 1970s, Hickman was a founding member of the ...

The TPN solution is administered via a Hickman line, a central catheter placed into a large vein near the heart. Every night for 12 hours, Annie is hooked up to an IV drip that runs all night ...

A tunnelled central venous catheter (often known as a Hickman line) is a long, fine, hollow silicone tube with an opening at each end. The tip of the tube is inserted into the superior vena cava. A ...

The first apheresis was interrupted by repeated inlet line pressure alarms. ... Hickman catheters clots: A common occurrence despite daily heparin flushing Cancer Treat Rep 1987 71: 651–653.

Washington State University and Mayo Clinic researchers have developed an electrochemical catheter hub that could someday ...

Gradually, Hickman placed more Broviac catheters in transplant patients, and he credits Hutch nurses who played a critical role in the evolution of the device. "The nurses said, 'Well, this is nice, ...

Milly, who had leukaemia, underwent a successful stem cell transplant in July 2017 and was making a good recovery when the following month her Hickman line, a catheter used to administer drugs ...

The heartbroken parents of a brave little boy battling cancer have been forced to stop organising fundraising events for treatment because it is too expensive. Instead of subjecting him to painful ...

She said when the youngster came around from her first bout of treatment, "there was bit of a do" when she saw her Hickman line, a catheter used to administer drugs. Boy, 8, ...

This review focuses on the management of CLABSI in children, outside the neonatal period, who have long-term tunneled CVCs (eg, Broviac or Hickman catheters, Bard Access Systems, Salt Lake City ...

Darren Carter had a Hickman line inserted into the right side of his chest in March 2020. "But by November 2017 I was being violently sick again.