Observational study of central venous catheter placement in children in haematology-oncology care.

Manel Kammoun et al* outline the findings of a study undertaken at Hedi Chaker University Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia, on infraclavicular central venous catheter placement in paediatric patients with thrombocytopenia and the efficiency of the platelet transfusion strategy used prior to the procedure. They describe their results in full in the next article.