paolo962000

paolo962000 has 5 years experience and specializes in Nephrology.

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1. Hepatitis vaccination

   paolo962000 replied to JEEE's topic in Urology

   Hello JEEE, In our center, we follow the 40mcg and 4 series rule. We give 40 mcg in one shot, given at one arm intramuscular. The rule is that if the HBS Titer count is more than 10 mIU/mL, there's no need to vaccinate. If the titer count is more tha...

2. Drawing labs from CVC locked with heparin

   paolo962000 replied to JollyGreenGiant's topic in Urology

   Hi Sir. Some say that instilling heparin 5000 IU/mL at each of the ports will not affect the result of the INR/PT. What I do personally is I take out 5mL of the blood with the previously instilled lock then discard. Then I will assess the patency of ...

3. HD catheters - dressing or no?

   paolo962000 replied to kdunurse's topic in Urology

   It is the standard to use the CDC guideline in dressing the HD access. For us, we change the Sterile Gauze Dressing every 48h, and those with chlorhexidine ones once weekly (7 days).