Friday September 01, 2006
Distal port of CVC

(Sender of this pearl has requested to hold his/her and institution's name).


Dear icuroom editors'

All kudos to your commitment for this site !! ..........

I have been in Critical Care practice for about 8 years and want to bring attention of my colleauges who are in practice for many years and some of like us, in teaching institutions, who unfortunately do not perform as many procedures due to presence of residents and fellows - to the fact that

'there is no standard color for distal port'

Over last few years, there are so many different central venous catheters made available in market that you better acquaint yourself with kit and catheter. Recently, while changing catheter over wire, I was looking for a "brown" port to insert wire but there was no brown port in this new exotic central venous catheter. I learned 2 lessons:

1. Know your kit before you open it.
2. Don't get deceived by color !


My 2 cents,
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