Comments for CVAD - central venous access device http://www.cvad.org Health and Wellness News & Information Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:36:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Comment on Contact by KARIN PENN http://www.cvad.org/contact/#comment-5691 KARIN PENN Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:36:31 +0000 http://www.cvad.org/?page_id=445#comment-5691 My right contact is fine and I don't even realise it's there but my left contact is annoying me and keeps moving when I blink and makes my eye go blurry for a second or two. Can I fix this? My right contact is fine and I don’t even realise it’s there but my left contact is annoying me and keeps moving when I blink and makes my eye go blurry for a second or two. Can I fix this?

]]> Comment on central venous access device by PETRA YANEZ http://www.cvad.org/central-venous-access-device/#comment-5690 PETRA YANEZ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:32:23 +0000 http://www.cvad.org/?p=437#comment-5690 Well I am writing a story and I like to be as factually correct as possible. So what does it feel like during Chemo? What are the main side effects? How is it done? Do you have to spend the night in the hospital? After how many treatments does your hair start falling out? What other medications and treatments are usually used, and what are their side effects? :] Thank you Are there do's and dont's when you ar being treated. Like doctor's orders you have to follow? Certain diets and such? Leukemia. Like I said I am just writing a story. I just like to be as factually corect as possible. Well I am writing a story and I like to be as factually correct as possible. So what does it feel like during Chemo? What are the main side effects? How is it done? Do you have to spend the night in the hospital? After how many treatments does your hair start falling out? What other medications and treatments are usually used, and what are their side effects?

:] Thank you
Are there do’s and dont’s when you ar being treated. Like doctor’s orders you have to follow? Certain diets and such?
Leukemia. Like I said I am just writing a story. I just like to be as factually corect as possible.

]]> Comment on central venous access device by JILLIAN URIBE http://www.cvad.org/central-venous-access-device/#comment-5689 JILLIAN URIBE Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:18:44 +0000 http://www.cvad.org/?p=437#comment-5689 Well I am writing a story and I like to be as factually correct as possible. So what does it feel like during Chemo? What are the main side effects? How is it done? Do you have to spend the night in the hospital? After how many treatments does your hair start falling out? What other medications and treatments are usually used, and what are their side effects? :] Thank you Are there do's and dont's when you ar being treated. Like doctor's orders you have to follow? Certain diets and such? Leukemia. Like I said I am just writing a story. I just like to be as factually corect as possible. Well I am writing a story and I like to be as factually correct as possible. So what does it feel like during Chemo? What are the main side effects? How is it done? Do you have to spend the night in the hospital? After how many treatments does your hair start falling out? What other medications and treatments are usually used, and what are their side effects?

:] Thank you
Are there do’s and dont’s when you ar being treated. Like doctor’s orders you have to follow? Certain diets and such?
Leukemia. Like I said I am just writing a story. I just like to be as factually corect as possible.

]]> Comment on central venous access device by ERICKA KENNY http://www.cvad.org/central-venous-access-device/#comment-5688 ERICKA KENNY Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:47:46 +0000 http://www.cvad.org/?p=437#comment-5688 Well I am writing a story and I like to be as factually correct as possible. So what does it feel like during Chemo? What are the main side effects? How is it done? Do you have to spend the night in the hospital? After how many treatments does your hair start falling out? What other medications and treatments are usually used, and what are their side effects? :] Thank you Are there do's and dont's when you ar being treated. Like doctor's orders you have to follow? Certain diets and such? Leukemia. Like I said I am just writing a story. I just like to be as factually corect as possible. Well I am writing a story and I like to be as factually correct as possible. So what does it feel like during Chemo? What are the main side effects? How is it done? Do you have to spend the night in the hospital? After how many treatments does your hair start falling out? What other medications and treatments are usually used, and what are their side effects?

:] Thank you
Are there do’s and dont’s when you ar being treated. Like doctor’s orders you have to follow? Certain diets and such?
Leukemia. Like I said I am just writing a story. I just like to be as factually corect as possible.

]]> Comment on What is an Implanted Central Venous Access Device (CVAD)? by LESLEY PUTNAM http://www.cvad.org/what-is-an-implanted-central-venous-access-device-cvad/#comment-5687 LESLEY PUTNAM Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:03:37 +0000 http://www.cvad.org/?p=427#comment-5687 How does an emergency procedure work, starting from the accident and 9-1-1 is called? Say that the problem is extreme bleeding and hypothermia. What happens from the arrival of the ambulance to the arrival at the hospital, and what are standard ER room procedures, and what kind of doctors/surgeons/people are inside the ER room? I'm asking about California hospitals in particular, but I'm sure that ER procedures are similar across states (e.g. tool sterilization). Thanks in advance! I'm doing research for a novel that I'm writing, but I want to be as accurate as possible. If you're a surgeon/doctor/assistant, you'd probably be able to help me the most. But crime scene/murder mystery lovers are probably quite insightful as well :) How does an emergency procedure work, starting from the accident and 9-1-1 is called? Say that the problem is extreme bleeding and hypothermia. What happens from the arrival of the ambulance to the arrival at the hospital, and what are standard ER room procedures, and what kind of doctors/surgeons/people are inside the ER room?

I’m asking about California hospitals in particular, but I’m sure that ER procedures are similar across states (e.g. tool sterilization).

Thanks in advance! I’m doing research for a novel that I’m writing, but I want to be as accurate as possible. If you’re a surgeon/doctor/assistant, you’d probably be able to help me the most.

But crime scene/murder mystery lovers are probably quite insightful as well :)

]]> Comment on central venous access device by MARYLOU PAPPAS http://www.cvad.org/central-venous-access-device/#comment-5686 MARYLOU PAPPAS Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:13:39 +0000 http://www.cvad.org/?p=437#comment-5686 Hello, I want to know why does the vein have to be connected to an artery in order for hemodialysis to work? Why can't they just take venous blood? Also, can't the artery blow out the fragile vein? What could go wrong with the fistula if you run medications through it? Hello,
I want to know why does the vein have to be connected to an artery in order for hemodialysis to work? Why can’t they just take venous blood?

Also, can’t the artery blow out the fragile vein?

What could go wrong with the fistula if you run medications through it?

]]> Comment on central venous access device by CAROLINA DICKENS http://www.cvad.org/central-venous-access-device/#comment-5685 CAROLINA DICKENS Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:16:52 +0000 http://www.cvad.org/?p=437#comment-5685 I read an article by the Associated Press in a local paper that Bacterial Blood Infections are 20% higher in my state, (Tennessee). It says that they are most commonly caused by Central Lines near the groin and collar bone. What is Central Lines? And do they mean a Catheter when they say the groin area. It also states that Nationally Health-care-associated infections, including those from central lines, are one of the top 10 leading deaths in the United States. And that 1.7 million people are infected in Hospitals each year with 99,000 people dying! This scares me to death! I am supposed to have Gall Bladder surgery soon and I don't know if I want to know. Can I refuse a Catheter? Will the Dr refuse to do surgery if I tell him I will refuse a catheter? Somebody help me here. Doctors and Nurses view on this would be appreciated. I read an article by the Associated Press in a local paper that Bacterial Blood Infections are 20% higher in my state, (Tennessee). It says that they are most commonly caused by Central Lines near the groin and collar bone.

What is Central Lines? And do they mean a Catheter when they say the groin area.

It also states that Nationally Health-care-associated infections, including those from central lines, are one of the top 10 leading deaths in the United States. And that 1.7 million people are infected in Hospitals each year with 99,000 people dying!

This scares me to death! I am supposed to have Gall Bladder surgery soon and I don’t know if I want to know. Can I refuse a Catheter? Will the Dr refuse to do surgery if I tell him I will refuse a catheter? Somebody help me here. Doctors and Nurses view on this would be appreciated.

]]> Comment on The Procedure – implementing a CVAD by KIRSTEN SUMNER http://www.cvad.org/the-procedure-implementing-a-cvad/#comment-5684 KIRSTEN SUMNER Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:35:33 +0000 http://www.cvad.org/?p=435#comment-5684 A. Lymph to the left subclavian vein B. Lymph back to the heart C. Lymph to the lower extremities of the body D. Lymph to the abdominal organs A. Lymph to the left subclavian vein
B. Lymph back to the heart
C. Lymph to the lower extremities of the body
D. Lymph to the abdominal organs

]]> Comment on The Procedure – implementing a CVAD by Louisa Ellman http://www.cvad.org/the-procedure-implementing-a-cvad/#comment-5683 Louisa Ellman Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:21:38 +0000 http://www.cvad.org/?p=435#comment-5683 Ok my mother was diagnosed with lyme disease here while back. Well she was in the middle of a procedure of them putting in a pick line and they accidentally turned the light off and she jumped and I guess it messed her vein up. Is there an actual way of getting a subclavian vein repaired without having stints. Because I heard so far that some folks that had stints didn't make it. So that's what kindof worries me. Please help! and thank you for taking the time of reading this. Ok my mother was diagnosed with lyme disease here while back. Well she was in the middle of a procedure of them putting in a pick line and they accidentally turned the light off and she jumped and I guess it messed her vein up. Is there an actual way of getting a subclavian vein repaired without having stints. Because I heard so far that some folks that had stints didn’t make it. So that’s what kindof worries me. Please help! and thank you for taking the time of reading this.

]]> Comment on CVAD Complications and Infections by Serena Frieden http://www.cvad.org/cvad-complications-and-infections/#comment-5682 Serena Frieden Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:00:56 +0000 http://www.cvad.org/?p=446#comment-5682 Courtesy of an exceptionally lazy and incopentent home health nurse, I had to have an infected PICC line removed Sunday (today is Thursday). The skin around the insertion site appears to be riddled with a fungal infection (does seem to be getting better with topical antifungals). I am concerned about possible bloodstream infection (brownish yellow "goo" all along the line when she pulled it out). My temperature has not been over 99.5 since it was pulled. Is a catheter-related BSI possible in the absence of high fever? If so, would lit likely present itself immediatiely, or could it take several days? TIA, ~M~ p.s. Had PICC inserted in opposite arm the next day. PICC is for delivery of IV antibiotics for the treatment of Lyme disease. Thank you so much, Gabuchila. That helps me out quite a bit. Hopefully, this did not turn into a BSI. For some reason, this second PICC really hurts (arm very achey and no clue why so achey under my right rib cage). I'm not having very good luck with PICCs thus far, to say the least! Courtesy of an exceptionally lazy and incopentent home health nurse, I had to have an infected PICC line removed Sunday (today is Thursday). The skin around the insertion site appears to be riddled with a fungal infection (does seem to be getting better with topical antifungals). I am concerned about possible bloodstream infection (brownish yellow “goo” all along the line when she pulled it out). My temperature has not been over 99.5 since it was pulled. Is a catheter-related BSI possible in the absence of high fever? If so, would lit likely present itself immediatiely, or could it take several days?

TIA,
~M~

p.s. Had PICC inserted in opposite arm the next day.
PICC is for delivery of IV antibiotics for the treatment of Lyme disease.
Thank you so much, Gabuchila. That helps me out quite a bit. Hopefully, this did not turn into a BSI. For some reason, this second PICC really hurts (arm very achey and no clue why so achey under my right rib cage). I’m not having very good luck with PICCs thus far, to say the least!

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