EKOS CATHETER

[Kiwi82, BSN, RN]

Has anyone had luck connecting a transducer and obtaining any type of pressure on a EKOS catheter? It's a fenestrated catheter  so I am unsure on how a pressure could be obtained with so many holes. Our physicians are adamant that "this always works" yet we all have a hard time getting any pressures. 

[offlabel]

Which lumen are you trying to transduce? The only one that would make sense would be the 'coolant' lumen as it is completely primed, it doesn't have the u/s wire through as the central lumen does and it isn't micro-fenestrated like the drug port lumen is.