| Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115 | |||||
| Transfusion Medicine Service | |||||
| Therapeutic Apheresis | |||||
| Central Venous Catheters (Double Lumen) | |||||
| Guidelines for Apheresis Treatments | |||||
| *Never use Ports, PICCs, or Cordis sheaths for Apheresis Treatments | |||||
| TEMPORARY | |||||
| Femoral | Subclavian | ||||
| (Pediatrics) | |||||
| Medcomp | 7F x 10cm | (pt <25kg) | Mahurkar | 8F x 12cm | |
| Medcomp | 9F x 12cm | (pt >25kg) | (Quinton) | 8F x 15cm | |
| (Small Adults) | |||||
| These lines are available in the Blood Bank | Mahurkar | 10F x 15cm | |||
| after hours | (Quinton) | 10F x 19.5cm | |||
| Mahurkar | 11.5F x 13.5cm | ||||
| (Quinton) | 11.5F x 16cm | ||||
| 11.5F x 19.5 cm | |||||
| PERMANENT | |||||
| IJ | Subclavian | ||||
| Vascath | 12.5F x 12cm | Medcomp | 8F x 18cm | ||
| 12.5F x 15cm | 8F x 24cm | ||||
| 12.5F x 17cm | |||||
| 12.5F x 19cm | Medcomp | 12F x 28cm | |||
| 12.5F x 23cm | |||||
| ****Pt's <10kg: Choice for CVC at the discretion of MD | |||||
| Please page the Apheresis RN On-Call for assistance: pgr #6270 | |||||