Dressing Procedure

Squeeze the saline from the gauze pads or packing tape until it is no longer dripping.

Dressing procedure. Place the gauze pads or packing. What you will need a clear available work space such as a stainless steel trolley. The end of this catheter goes into a large vein near your heart. Place gauze pads and any packing tape you will use in the bowl.

Dressing supplies must be. Then clean the wound and periwound skin. Peripherally inserted central catheter dressing change a peripherally inserted central catheter picc is a long thin tube that goes into your body through a vein in your upper arm. Follow these steps to put a new dressing on.

Procedure to promote a clean dressing technique addressing the foregoing issues can make the possibility of a truly clean technique more likely as can organizing the procedure into three distinct parts. Technique for cleaning and dressing of the. Perform hand hygiene 3. A sterile dressing procedure pack access to hand washing sink or alcohol hand wash non sterile gloves to remove old dressing apron appropriate dressings.

Check present dressing with non sterile gloves. At home you will need to change the dressing that protects the catheter site. Use non sterile gloves to protect yourself from contamination. Pour saline into a clean bowl.

In any case if local signs of infection are observed look for general signs of infection fever. 4 3 simple dressing change 1. Hand hygiene prevents spread of microorganisms. The space must be big enough for the dressing pack to.

Put on a new pair of non sterile gloves.