Abstract
Cancer patients commonly require long-term central venous catheters. These catheters are used to repeatedly administer systemic antineoplastic treatments, blood draws, and at times hydration, parental nutrition, blood products, and antibiotics. Long-term retention of central venous catheters, defined as indwelling catheter for greater than 14-day duration, is associated with significant morbidity (Infect Drug Resist 7:25–35, 2014). Most common catheter-related late complications are potentially life-threatening bloodstream infections. While proper placement techniques, standardization of sterile procedures, and improved devices can decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections, every surgical oncologist will, however, still encounter this complication.
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Woo, Y. (2017). Management of Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections in Cancer Patients. In: Fong, Y., Kauffmann, R., Marcinkowski, E., Singh, G., Schoellhammer, H. (eds) Surgical Emergencies in the Cancer Patient. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44025-5_23
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