What type of line should be placed?
- Who needs a temporary line?
- Patients requiring stem cell HARVEST who could not be harvested via peripheral line
- Patients with +blood cultures, but need hemodialysis or other treatment
- Patients needing urgent or emergent pheresis
- Patients needing dialysis or other treatment, who have low platelets or high INR
- Patients with poor peripheral venous access (7Fr triple lumen). We don't see these requests often as they are either placed on the floors/units, or patients get PICCs.
- Who needs a tunneled central venous catheter?
- Patients requiring stem cell TRANSPLANT. These patients are admitted to the hospital following line placement, and stay 3-4 weeks.
- Patients requiring plasma or photopheresis. We use dialysis catheters for pheresis as lumens are much larger
- Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension who require around the clock Milrinone (we use a single lumen catheter for these)
- Patients with Prostate cancer requiring the 6 week Provenge therapy
- Long term abx (usually single lumen)
- Access for TPN (usually single lumen)