Peripherally inserted central venous catheter to improve patient health education method.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 6 Peripherally inserted central venous catheter to improve patient health education method [Keywords:] peripherally inserted central venous catheter; health education; method Peripherally inserted central venous catheter (peripherally inserted central catheter, PICC) is a safe and convenient access intravenous infusion for patients with medium to long-term intravenous infusion and chemotherapy drugs, can be retained up to 1 year, is currently in clinical widely used. in clinical practice found that patients with a tube as a long time treatment of intermittent maintenance and guidance of the catheter is very important. specialized hospital maintenance and effective use of time catheter mission is to determine the key factors, while reducing iatrogenic the risk of catheter-related infections. our hospital from January 2008 onwards, the PICC line method of health education of patients improved on the establishment of an information file for each patient, release lt;lt;after-care tube manualgt;gt;; the same time set the PICC outpatient specialist care, by two specialist nurses trained PICC catheter maintenance of discharged patients, standardized training for ward nurses, so that more standardized catheter maintenance, safety, hospital patients but also to meet the needs of extended care services to enhance specialist quality of care, practice and experience we now report as follows. 1 Materials and Methods 1.1 General information on routine PICC 2007 164 patients, male 89 cases, female 75, age 32 to 81 years, mean 57.4 years old routine PICC .2008 217 patients, 104 cases of male and female 113 cases, aged 27 to 76 years average 59.1 years old. Pakistan was the United States Information 1.2 Company catheter single lumen three-valve-type PICC, 4F catheter. 1.3 Methods 1.3.1 In 2007 the health education content catheter using only oral health education, including the timeliness of medication, daily notes, to the professional