When you are not using your catheter right away. How frequently do you do irrigation and heparinization of your catheter in your pediatric population? Normally, we do ins/outs once a week and we heparinize the catheter post ins/outs. what is the longest time between ins/outs you have done. Did your patients developed fibrin or blockage..
When you are not using your catheter right away. How frequently do you do irrigation and heparinization of your catheter in your pediatric population? Normally, we do ins/outs once a week and we heparinize the catheter post ins/outs. what is the longest time between ins/outs you have done. Did your patients developed fibrin or blockage..
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Paule Comtois, Nurse from Montreal asked
When you are not using your catheter right away. How frequently do you do irrigation and heparinization of your catheter in your pediatric population? Normally, we do ins/outs once a week and we heparinize the catheter post ins/outs. what is the longest time between ins/outs you have done. Did your patients developed fibrin or blockage..

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⋅ Fadhlina (MD), Malaysia ⋅ February 3, 2022

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I treated the adult population; however, it does carry a similar catheter break-in principle. If the catheter is not used right away, we will only flush it again on D7 to D9 to check for catheter patency. We do not use any heparinised solution to lock the catheter between the duration. So far, our catheter patency is good, and no report of fibrin or blockage has been seen. However, we have to ensure that the catheter patency is good and the catheter placement is correct post-surgery.  

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