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Old Tue Mar 25, 2014, 05:53 AM
Birgitta-A Birgitta-A is offline
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Port-a-cath

Hi Chirley,
It's almost incredible that the nurse left the needle in your port and didn't flush with saline and inject Heparin to lock the catheter and prevent blood to coagulate in the catheter.

Interesting with the port-a-cathogram that I never read anything about that. Hope you will get it done soon and that they will manage to get your port to function again.

I love my port too - I have had it since 2007 and never had any problems (knock on wood). I have received 186 units of PRBC and 75 Desferal infusions during 4 days with txs. Then I get antibiotics every 6th hour when I have fever. It is flushed every 4th week when I don't get any txs - now when I am taking Revlimid I got the latest tx Nov 2013 and my HGB is 13.7.
Kind regards
Birgitta-A
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