kdecarl

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1. Repetative injury question

   kdecarl posted a topic in CCU

   Does anyone out there pull arterial sheaths s/p heart caths? Our Recovery room nurses do this and in a 4 month period...D/C'd 400 sheaths. Some ofour nurses now have wrist , fore arm and back problems and just last week, our top pullers were complai...

2. EZ hold use in femoral sheath removal

   kdecarl replied to ustfhh's topic in CCU

   I realize that this is an old post...but I have some questions about sheath pulling. My unit is a high volume cath lab.. and in the past 3 months, our nurses have Manually pulled 366 arterial sheaths, averaging 30 per RN during this time...Some of ou...