Where is PleurX catheter placed?
A PleurX drainage catheter is a thin, flexible tube that’s placed in your chest to drain fluid from your pleural space.
How do you place a PleurX catheter?
How does the PleurX system work?
- The PleurX catheter is inserted in the chest for draining pleural effusions.
- The PleurX catheter is inserted in the abdomen for draining malignant ascites.
- The end of the catheter stays on the outside of the body, covered by a thin protective dressing while not in use.
What is the proper location for placement of the cannula hollow needle to drain the pleural effusion?
Insert the needle along the upper border of the rib while aspirating and advance it into the effusion. When fluid or blood is aspirated, insert the catheter over the needle into the pleural space and withdraw the needle, leaving the catheter in the pleural space.
What is the best place for pleural drainage?
Always insert the chest drain at the superior margin of the rib.
- Pneumothorax: The fifth to eighth intercostal spaces in the mid-axillary line or the second intercostal space in the mid-clavicular line.
- Nonencapsulated pleural effusion: The fifth to eighth intercostal spaces in the mid-axillary line.
What is an indwelling Pleural Catheter?
An indwelling pleural catheter (IPC) is a small tube designed to drain fluid from around your lungs easily and painlessly, whenever it is needed. The tube is soft and flexible. One end remains inside the chest and the other passes out through the skin.
What is an Aspire catheter?
The Aspira* Peritoneal Drainage Catheter is a tunneled, long-term catheter used to drain accumulated fluid from the peritoneal cavity to relieve symptoms associated with malignant ascites.
What is a pleural catheter drainage?
Product Description: The Aspira* Pleural Drainage Catheter is a tunneled, long-term catheter used to drain accumulated fluid from the pleural cavity to relieve symptoms associated with pleural effusion. The catheter is implanted in the patient’s pleural cavity enabling the patient to perform intermittent pleural effusion drainage at home.
What is a rocket catheter?
Project Description. The Rocket® Indwelling Pleural Catheter or IPC range is a system that offers home care for patients indicated for intermittent, long term drainage of symptomatic, recurrent, pleural effusion. It includes malignant pleural effusions that do not respond to medical treatment of underlying disease.
