Washing of venous catheters
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1. Each connection of a catheter are gate for penetration of an infection. Avoid a repeated touch hands to the equipment. Strictly observe an asepsis, work only in sterile gloves.
2. Change sterile caps more often, never use caps which internal surface could be infected.
3. Right after introduction of antibiotics, strong solutions of glucose, blood preparations wash out a catheter a small amount of normal saline solution.
4. You watch a condition of a retentive bandage and change it if necessary or time in three days.
5. Regularly examine the place of a puncture for the purpose of early identification of complications. At emergence of hypostasis, reddening, local temperature increase, impassability of a catheter, dribble, and also at painful feelings at administration of drugs inform the doctor and remove a catheter.
6. When changing an adhesive bandage it is forbidden to use scissors. There is a danger to a catheter to be cut off that will lead to hit of a catheter in circulatory system.
7. For prevention of thrombophlebitis a thin layer one vein higher than the place of a puncture impose thrombolytic ointments (for example, Traumel, "Heparin", "Troxevasinum").
8. Washing of a catheter has to be made before and after each session of infusion by geparinizirovanny solution (5 ml of isotonic solution of sodium chloride + 2500 PIECES of heparin) through port.
Venous catheter
