cancerrn

I hate to disagree with you, but I've only had bad experiences with stat locks. We went through a little phase at our hospital using stat locks for PICC lines rather than suturing them to the pt's skin. We had lots of problems with the stat locks. It is a challenge for me to change them while doing a central line dressing change without pulling the PICC out at all; needless to say, it is very difficult to teach pts how to change them themselves. We also had several pts pull them off and lose their PICCs by accident. I haven't seen stat locks used for peripheral IVs, however. I hope you have better luck with your stat locks than we did!