Defenders of this blanket prohibition offer arguments that range from the moral (torture degrades and corrupts the society that allows it) to the practical (people will say anything under torture so the information they provide is unreliable anyway).
Subcutaneous venous ports are currently the preferred type of port because of their low infection rate and because they provide the greatest comfort for the patient. Placement of these ports has traditionally done via open surgery, but our doctors can use radiology imaging techniques to put the ports in more quickly and less invasively, resulting in fewer complications. Chemotherapy port placement is a procedure that our doctors perform in our freestanding facility.
A port consists of a reservoir compartment (the portal) that has a silicone bubble for needle insertion (the septum), with an. attached plastic tube (the catheter). The device is surgically inserted under the skin in the upper chest or in the arm and. appears as a bump under the skin.