Long-term venous access device use in treatment of malignancies: experience from a government hospital in Eastern India.

Long-term venous access catheters are very useful for administration of chemotherapy and other drug infusions in patients with haematological malignancies. But their use in government hospitals is still restricted. This study aimed to audit the surgical and infective complications of the vascular access devices which we have used for last three years in patients of haematological malignancies. We also tried to identify risk factors associated with higher infective and other complications.