The agitated saline is delivered by hand injection. So if you
have established that the PICC is not offering any resistance and that
the regular flush goes in without obstruction, I think you could do
this with a PICC. Of course, some hands are stronger than others and
even with a 10 ml syringe on a partially occluded PICC, the internal
pressure can rise to a dangerous level that could lead to catheter
rupture. Lynn
At 7:20 PM -0500 3/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My only concern is how fast and how much pressure. I am not familiar enough with the procedure to say for sure. But the 10 ml syringe requirement would remain and not forcing the flow. So I would think that for "rapid" infusion the use of the PICC would NOT be appropriate.
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In a message dated 3/9/2006 9:57:40 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can a PICC be used for a bubble study during an ECHO? It would be about 10
cc of aggitated saline pushed quickly by hand, then flushed and heparanized?
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