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A Hickman catheter is a long flexible tube with one end in the right atrium of the heart and the other end outside the skin of the chest. Chemotherapy drugs, transfusions, and IV fluids are put into the end of the tube hanging outside the body, so the child has no needle pokes, pain, or fear. Blood samples can also be drawn from the catheter.
