Monitoring Central Venous Catheter Resistance to Predict Imminent Occlusion: A Prospective Pilot Study

• Joshua Wolf ,

  * E-mail: Joshua.Wolf@stjude.org

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

  ⨯
• Li Tang,

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

  ⨯
• Jeffrey E. Rubnitz,

  Affiliations Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

  ⨯
• Rachel C. Brennan,

  Affiliation Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

  ⨯
• David R. Shook,

  Affiliation Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

  ⨯
• Dennis C. Stokes,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

  ⨯
• Paul Monagle,

  Affiliations Department of Haematology, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

  ⨯
• Nigel Curtis,

  Affiliations Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Infectious Diseases Unit, The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

  ⨯
• Leon J. Worth,

  Affiliations Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

  ⨯
• Kim Allison,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

  ⨯
• Yilun Sun,

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

  ⨯
• Patricia M. Flynn

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

  ⨯