Are MDs removing ports in surgery or at their offices? Does anyone have surgeons removing them at the bedside in their facilities? We seem to have a difference of opinion among our physicians and I am wondering what others are doing.
Are MDs removing ports in surgery or at their offices? Does anyone have surgeons removing them at the bedside in their facilities? We seem to have a difference of opinion among our physicians and I am wondering what others are doing.
MDs remove ports as well as APNs trained under the surgeons, at the bedside (adults) if unable to travel to our IV Team clinic. we have the cautery machine/ head lights/port removal tray in this clinic. Local anesthesia only. If sedation is required- then anesthesia schedules it in their specified roon in PACU unit.
IV team nurses assist each removal, unless done outside the team's work schedule.
Pedi- in O.R. always with sedation.
M.D. Anderson Hosp/Houston