| Question |
Answer |
| peripheral venous sites |
superficial veins of the arm and hand; most common site |
| midline catheter |
inserted in antecubital area until just before axilla used for those with limited peripheral veins or require extended IV therapy |
| central venous catheter |
delivered into large vein such vena cava and inserted into the jugular or subclavian vein |
| Peripheral IV change |
72 hours |
| Triple Lumen |
one central line three ports cvan only be used with sub c, jugular, femoral, antecubital |
| How long for triple lumen |
2-3 weeks |
| How long for PICC |
6 weeks |
| Porta Catheter |
surgically implanted threaded into r. side heart |
| flush porta cath with |
heparin |
| huber |
curved needle to access porta cath |
| which can you draw bllod from |
porta, PICC, |
| procedure for drawing blood from VAD |
discard first 5 ml d/t iv fluids |
| whole blood |
cells and plasma |
| platlets |
disk shaped fragments that promote coagulation of blood |
| granulocytes |
types of white blood cells |
| plasma |
serum without blood cells |
| albumin |
plasma protein |
| cryprecipitate |
mixture of clotting factors |
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