À few months I use now The securAcath to fix The PICC lines. The method suits very well and care has become considerably easier. No stathlock patch anymore. Have more people this experience?
Jan Krukkert
CardioPICCTeam
UMC St. Radboud Nijmegen
the Nederlands
I am about to start a trial use of the product......Find it very interesting but still unsure if it needs to go on every PICC or just selected cases that are known longer dwell??? Any thoughts on this?
Thank You
Our hospital has used Securacath for almost one year. We place them on all our picc lines with very few exceptions since we change the dressing every seven days or sooner if it becomes loose or saturated with whatever it may be. We have found that dressing changes are completed more efficiently and the risk for accidental removal of the picc line is all but non-existent during dressing changes with Securacath correctly in place. It has been my experience that with the adhesive device, dressing changes were a very vulnerable time for accidental removal. This, in my opinion is especially important for those clinicians that are unfamiliar with doing picc line dressing changes. As a picc line nurse, I would recommend them for all piccs for any length of dwell time, because while no securement device, not even sutures, can prevent dislogment, we have had less dislodgements since changing from an adhesive securement device.
Joe D. Sanchez RN, BA.|Cardiac Catheterization Lab
St. David's Round Rock Medical Center
2400 Round Rock Avenue
Round Rock, TX 78681
512-341-5623
[email protected]
We started using securAcath in February of this year and were hooked from the start. I work in the PICU and we use the securAcath for PICC's, CVL's and Chest tubes (Fuhrman's and Blitt's). The rest of the facility is using it mainly for PICC's. There has been a learning curves for all staff from physicians and LIP's who insert CVL's, the vascualr access team to cut the correct length for the PICC's and the staff for the dressing changes, maintainance and remove. Our rep Brian Reina came to the PICU and helped out with insertions and answered questions as we had them. He has been availalbe as needed to trouble shoot any concerns we have had. It has been different then many new products because everyone wants to use them all the time. We did not have to sell the staff on the product. It sold itself because it helped meet the needs and concerns that were an issue with PICC lines in particular concerning dislodgement during dressing changes.
LeAnn Ash RN, BSN, CCRN
QI Specialist
Cook Children's Medical Center
Fort Worth, TX 76104
[email protected]
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Jan, I have been using the SecurAcath product for several years now. We started using the SecurAcath when we found we had an issue with our patients at home receiving continuous Milrinone. Every time they had a dressing change the line was pulled out 1 - 2 cm. So at about 6 weeks we had to replace the line because the tip of the catheter was at the carina or above. This is our limit with PICC tips. We began to use the SecurAcath and have pretty much eliminated accidental line removal.
As we began to use them we found more and more patients who are benefiting from them.
We love them but like all other products there is a learning curve. Margy
M Galloway, RN, BSN,
SecurAcath has eliminated our accidental PICC migrations. It also makes changing the dressings quicker, simpler and safer. It stays intact for the life of the catheter. We love it.
Leah Crement RN, CRN
Radiology Dept/PICC team
College Station Medical Center
We have been using Secur-A-Cath for about a year now on all our PICC lines as well as some CVC's, it has not totally elliminated our "accidental removals" but has greatly reduced them (about 80%).
As for the other nurses removing.
Our Secur-A-Cath Rep brought in a nurse educator who spent about week at our facility & visiting other facilities in the area training nurses on how to remove the Secur-A-Cath.
There is a learning curve and a fear of using the device to overcome.
Timothy McCrory, RN, BSN, CCRN, VA-BC
Vascular Access Managment