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Accessing Central Venous Catheters

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Dustdevil Newbie

Dustdevil

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we were taught about it and it was drilled into our heads DO NOT ACCESS THAT SHUNT DO NOT ACCESS THAT SHUNT DO NOT ACCESS THAT SHUNT

How long ago was that?

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DontFearTheReaper Newbie

DontFearTheReaper

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Both of the services I work at have kits made up to access the port-a-caths. At the hospital service we had to take a inservice about the caths and we had to access 3 under the eye of a ER nurse. Triple lumen's are also use able.

County service said here it is use it.

Neither place has a problem with us using them "if it is there use it"... If we are only accessing with a saline lock we have to push 10 cc of heparin. I always hang NS kvo...

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