Table 2. Summary of venous access device studies.

Author	Year	No of devices	Inserted by	Type of device	Infection (%)	Thrombosis (%)	Pneumothorax (%)	Device malfunction (%)	Removal for Complication(%)	Mean catheter life (months)	Months of service
Vardy,	2004	111	Radiology	CVAPD	4	2	2	1	7	7	1222
Lorch et al,	2001	125	Radiology	CVAPD	2.4	0	1.6	2.4	4.8	3	364
de Gregorio et al,	1996	288	Radiology	CVAPD	4.1	4.5	0.7	1.4	18	10	2984
Biffi et al,	1998	333	Surgery	CVAPD	2.7	1.5	3.4	2.7	3.6	8	2605
Schwarz et al,	1997	680	Surgery	CVAPD	8.8	3	0	1.7	14.1	39	N/A
Kock et al,	1998	1500	Surgery	CVAPD	3.2	2.5	0.3	2.8	11.9	9	14013
Eastridge and Lefor,	1995	113	Surgery	CVAPD	5	6	1.2 total	6% total	13.2	N/A	N/A
		209	Surgery	Catheters	13	10			32	N/A	N/A
Damascelli et al,	1997	30	Radiology	CVAPD	8.3	0	Total 3%	2.8	5.5	8	809
		111	Radiology	Catheters	6.3	1.8		1.8	10.8
Groeger et al,	1993	788	Surgery	Catheters	43	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	5451
		680	Surgery	CVAPD	8	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	9140
Gertner et al,	2000	278	N/A	Catheters	12.5	1.5	N/A	5.2	N/A	5	N/A
		110	N/A	CVAPD	4.6	1.1	N/A	0	N/A	7	N/A
Tolar and Gould,	1996	324	Surgery	Catheters	19.4	16.6	N/A	33.4	N/A	6	1969
Broadwater et al,	1990	763	Surgery	Catheters	4	3	2	N/A	25	6	N/A
Nightingale et al,	1997	949	Surgery	Catheters	10.6	4.4	1.8	2.2	18.6	4	3273
Smith et al,	1998	283	Surgery	Catheters and CVAPD	11.7	0.7	1.4	3.9	N/A	7	1624
		555	Nurses	PICCs	8.1	2.5	0	11.7	N/A	23	389
Walshe et al,	2002	351	Nurses/Rad	PICCS	7.4	3.4	0	6	32.8	1	347
Marcy et al,	2001	652	Radiology	Peripheral ports	0.9	1.2	0	1.8	4	5	N/A
Lyon et al,	1999	195	Radiology	Peripheral ports	5.1	4.6	0	5.1	9.7	6	1105
Hills et al,	1997	100	Radiology	Peripheral ports	7	0	0	0	6.2	8	784

N/A=not available.