Aquapheresis

You need someone around that is great with venous access. PIVS can be troublesome as stated. What we do is that the IV Nurse places the single lumen Aquadex catheter (usually with ultrasound. The catheter should not be trimmed,otherwise you end up cutting off the two hole in the distal end of the catheter. Just leave some extra externally visible if needed. Also never use a stat loc on the aquadex catheter. (it pops is up enough to make the machine alarm off like crazy) The IV nurse then places a good 16 or 18 gauge. The company originally made a dual lume catheter.but is was too prblematic and last I heard they only have the single now...that why you need a catheter and a PIV,though you can do it with 2 GOOD pivs.