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A Protocol to Set Up Needle-Free Connector with Positive Displacement on Central Venous Catheter in Intensive Care Unit
Published on: July 13, 2019
Prone positioning for peripherally inserted central catheter on a patient with anal cancer
Ferdinando Longo1, Fabio Costa1, Chiara Piliego1
1Unit of Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Management, Department of Medicine, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Abstract:
Peripherally inserted central catheters are usually inserted in supine patients. What should we do when facing a patient who cannot tolerate this position? In this article, we are describing a particularly difficult patient: not only supine decubitus was intolerable to her but lying on the side was unbearable, too. That is why, to manage a patient who required a central access but could not tolerate the usual position for placing it, we tried to do that in prone position.
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