You can help prevent clots by making sure your port’s flushed regularly when you’re not using it. Flushing means putting saline, the anti-clotting drug heparin, or both through the port and ...

Each port flush was performed by following standard sterile precautions using 10 mL of normal saline followed by 5 mL of heparin flush (100 units/mL). If there was no blood return, tissue plasminogen ...

Two examples: The proposal to flush an occluded port catheter with 5 mL heparin solution – without applying pressure – is well-meant, but in that case the port is not likely to be occluded.

single-dose vials and HEP-Lock heparin flush products after more than 400 reports of severe reactions surfaced. Patients experienced difficulty breathing, chest pains, dangerous drops in blood ...

Cases of patient infection with Serratia marcescens have been reported in connection with 1 lot of contaminated heparin IV flush syringes, according to an alert sent from MedWatch, the FDA's ...