tonyrn21

Colleagues, Our Interventional Radiology department is bringing us patients post arteriogram with an arterial sheath in place. I'm concerned because they are using infusion pumps with normal saline going into the side port to maintain patency. My e...

No. Its arterial. That's the issue. Our IVR Team is using this practice without supporting evidence.

My thoughts exactly. This is something our IVR department is doing and there is no evidence I was able to find that supports this practice.