Prone positioning for peripherally inserted central catheter on a patient with anal cancer.

Prone positioning for peripherally inserted central catheter on a patient with anal cancer. J Vasc Access. 2019 Jun 24;:1129729819857024 Authors: Longo F, Costa F, Piliego C, Agrò FE Abstract Peripherally inserted central catheters are usually inserted in supine patients. What should we do when facing a patient who cannot tolerate this position? In this article, we are describing a particularly difficult patient: not only supine decubitus was intolerable to her but lying on the side was unbearable, too. That is why, to manage a patient who required a central access but could not tolerate the usual position for placing it, we tried to do that in prone position. PMID: 31232211 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The Journal of Vascular Access - Category: Surgery Tags: J Vasc Access Source Type: research