Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter
PD Catheter · Tenckhoff Catheter · Tenckhoff Peritoneal Catheter · Curl Cath
A soft silicone tube with many small side holes at the inner end and one or two felt-like synthetic cuffs along the shaft that grow into the tissue to hold it in place. The inner end may be straight or coiled.
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What it does and the lengths it comes in.
What it’s for
Placed into the peritonealper-ih-toh-NEE-ulHaving to do with the peritoneum, the thin lining of the belly cavity and the organs inside it.Full entry cavity so dialysisdy-AL-ih-sisA treatment that removes wastes and extra fluid from the blood when the kidneys can no longer do it.dia- through, apart-lysis separation, looseningFull entry fluid can be run in and drained out to filter waste from the blood. In newborn heart surgery such as the Norwood procedure it is placed after bypass, along with a line in the right atriumAY-tree-umOne of the two upper chambers of the heart, which receive blood coming back to the heart.atri/o atrium-um noun endingFull entry ; it can also keep the abdomen decompressed to help ventilationven-tuh-LAY-shunAir moving in and out of the lungs as a person breathes.Full entry .
Lengths and variants
Straight or coiled (curl) inner ends, one or two cuffs, and swan-neck (bent) versions in adult and pediatric sizes.
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- AST. Surgical Technology for the Surgical Technologist. 4th ed. Chapter 10 (Instrumentation, Equipment, and Supplies), p. 286
- pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Mavroudis. Pediatric Cardiac Surgery. 4th ed. Ebstein Anomaly, p. 596
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