Publications by authors named "Martine Jerome"
Objectives: To assess the effect on needed nursing time for dressing change.
Design, Setting, Participants: A parallel-group, open-label, randomised controlled trial in patients who are in need for a peripherally inserted central catheter insertion in one teaching hospital in Belgium. The follow-up lasted 180 days or until catheter removal, whatever came first.
Purpose: Malfunction of totally implantable venous access devices is a common complication. The purpose was to identify definitions used to describe malfunction and to investigate the incidence of malfunction in different types of port and catheter designs.
Methods: Relevant studies were identified in PubMed that were published between January 1993 and February 2011.
Purpose/objectives: to investigate sensory perceptions of patients who underwent insertion of a totally implantable venous access device (TIVAD) under local anesthesia.
Research Approach: qualitative, exploratory study.
Setting: tertiary care center in Belgium.
Purpose: Evaluation of the Polyperf® Safe (PPS) needle on safety and user-friendliness, as experienced by first-time and non-first-time users of the device.
Methods: A prospective, descriptive study was carried out at the University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium. Five hundred PPS needles were individually evaluated in cancer patients.
Background: Microplasmin, a truncated form of plasmin, degrades fibrin and reacts with the circulating inhibitor alpha(2)-antiplasmin. We investigated the safety and efficacy of intra-catheter microplasmin bolus administration for the restoration of catheter function in long-term venous access catheter thrombosis.
Methods: This open-label, ascending-dose, pilot study enrolled 31 subjects.