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This term was used by one particular instructor on several different occasions during preconference--Mrs. Smith has such-and-such disorder, is on O2 at 2L, with a Vicra in the left forearm. Then when she started calling it a heplock, I questioned her about the difference between a Vicra and a heplock. She responded that it used to be called a Vicra, but since that's a brand name, it's really not proper to be referring to it as such. She said these days such access ports are often flushed with saline, not heparin, anyway, so even the term "heplock" is becoming outdated. To simplify things in my mind, I decided to remember the first term taught, Vicra.
blondie
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A few years ago, while I was still in nursing school, one of my instructors referred to a heplock as a "Vicra." She said that's what they used to be called, but it's not really proper terminology since it's a brand name. When I recently mentioned this to my nursing supervisor, she had no idea what I was talking about. Now I can't even find this term using online search engines. Does this sound familiar to anyone else?