Removal of PermCath
Posted By: victoriapage on 2009-05-18
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Subject: Removal of PermCath
We made an incision over the cuff. It was brought down through skin and subcutaneous tissue and the cuff was dissected free. With the patient in Trendelenburg, the catheter was removed from the (partable? but not portable) sheath.
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