Peripherally inserted central venous catheter in elderly patients application experience.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 8 Peripherally inserted central venous catheter in elderly patients application experience Authors: Yue-Hua Zhang, Lu Shaoping, Xie concentration [Abstract] Objective To study the elderly patients with peripherally inserted central venous catheter (PICC) in an effective manner. Methods used by the U.S. BD produced PICC catheter bag, the models use 4.0 ~ 5.0 Fr, select the elbow vein (basilic vein, median cubital vein, cephalic vein) to puncture, inserted central venous catheter. Results 38 cases of patients had an indwelling catheter success. Catheter retention time of 30 ~ 180 days. Conclusions PICC is simple, safe and puncture success rate is high, stay tubes a long time. In elderly patients correctly applied PICC, reduce patient suffering, improve the efficiency and quality of care. [Keywords:] Aged; peripherally inserted central venous catheter; Care The peripherally inserted central venous catheter (PICC), peripheral venous puncture in the tube under an intuitive to operate deep venous catheterization (CVC) is simple, safe and puncture a high success rate, may be nurses alone operation, reducing the CVC catheterization complications. In elderly patients increases with age, decreased blood vessel elasticity, blood vessel wall stiffness increases [1], if the long-term repeated venous puncture, not only increased the nursing labor intensity, but also bring great pain to the patient. Therefore, the need for long-infusion, especially in cancer chemotherapy and parenteral nutrition (TNP) in elderly patients, PICC able to provide a safe and effective venous access, for the treatment and rescue to win the best opportunity. The author in June 2004 ~ December 2005 38 cases of hospitalization in the elderly inpatients my PICC line catheterization, indwelling catheter method and experience will now be reported as follows. 1 Data and methods 1.1 General information on cases of this group, 38 cases were male, aged 68 ~ 92 years, mean 79 years.