Which hygienic measures need to taken into consideration?
You can make a considerable contribution to the longevity of your central venous catheter. Infection of your central venous catheter (e.g. Hickman, Broviac, Groshong or port catheters) is minimized if certain basic hygiene principles are adhered to. Such principles, amongst others, include:
- that you allocate yourself a clean workspace
- that you observe and carry out aseptic procedures (spray disinfect the ampules, disinfect your hands, use gloves)
- that you keep all connection points of your infusion system clean and that you do not talk while in a position that is directly over the connection points during assembly of the system
- that you exchange the respective component part of screw connection parts if they get touched by accident.
Please allocate the task of local care to yourself or to someone else. You will be trained according to a particular care standard by one of our Care Managers.
The TransCare team will be happy to help you find trained nursing staff should you plan to endorse the help of a nursing service for further care. The team will take care to ensure that the nursing service works according to generally accepted rules.