Do you find POCUS useful for evaluating a potentially infiltrated PIV?
What technique(s) do you suggest?
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Have you used POCUS to evaluate a potentially infiltrated PIV?
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Hospital Medicine · Washington State University Floyd College of Medicine
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Short answer: Yes.
Longer answer: consider the definition of an infiltrated IV. Infiltration relates to the dislodgement of the catheter tip from the intravascular space. When connected to an infusion, the infusate will leak into the surrounding subcutaneous tissue, which typically alerts the patie...
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