We use saline only for flushes on all central lines including triple lumens. Our hospital uses Groshong ports, PICCs and tunneled catheters. Occasionally the docs will insert a Hohn catheter and the triple lumen CVC's are open ended. We used to use heparin for triple lumen CVCs and any non groshong. We use the CLC2000 on all central lines so therefore we have gone to saline flushes only. I surveyed the docs who insert the lines and all but one thought saline only was OK and a couple of our new younger docs thought that saline only was the norm as hospitals where they had been were using saline only. Haven't encountered any problems. Margaret Margaret M Nicastro, CRNI, OCN Coorordinator IV Therapy/Oncology Gettysburg Hospital PO Box 3786 147 Gettys Street Gettysburg, PA 17325 Phone: 717-337-4312 option 2 Fax: 717-337-4485 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail may contain confidential health information that is legally privileged. This information is intended for the use of the named recipient(s). The authorized recipient of this information is prohibited from disclosing this information to any party unless required to do so by law or regulation and is required to destroy the information after its stated need has been fulfilled. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or action taken in reliance on the contents of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you receive this e-mail message in error, please notify the sender immediately to arrange disposition of the information.
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