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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: sullidog on March 22, 2010, 04:15:32 PM
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As from my previous post I've been having problems with the stitches in my catheter burning, today I asked them at dialysis to look at them again and they said that a couple of them are loose. When I asked again if they can take them out they said no because if they take them out they run a risk of the whole catheter coming out because sometimes the cuff doesn't grow into the skin properly. Is this indeed a true statement? or is my dialysis center correct? Right now they've got the catheter held at the bottom with silk tape so it doesn't pull on the stitches.
Troy
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Yes, Troy, I think they are right on this one. If you want to see of the stitches can come out make an appointment with the guy who put them in.
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I thought you has posted somewhere else and im sure ive replied to it or am i going :urcrazy;
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Hey KS, I would definitely recommend you call or see the surgeon that put the catheter in. The sutures are there to hold it in place until the cuff seats properly and if they are loose, I would be afraid this may not happen. A little prevention here may go a long way to keeping things as they should be.
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No ks, but it was something similar.
I think I will do that as I read on the davida bords when I was doing a research on something that this guy got an infection because his stitches were loose.
Troy
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Hey KS, I would definitely recommend you call or see the surgeon that put the catheter in. The sutures are there to hold it in place until the cuff seats properly and if they are loose, I would be afraid this may not happen. A little prevention here may go a long way to keeping things as they should be.
:secret; it wasnt my post !
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It sounds like you need new stitches and/or the ones you have are in infected skin. Don't underestimate the probability of a catheter just sliding out. I saw Jenn's removed in 2 seconds with a gentle tug at the hospital. Her dacron cuff pulled off of the catheter and stayed in her, which created some problems a few months later with recurrent infections. Get your cuff removed when you get rid of your catheter.
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I had one of my chest catheters come out at night. Scare the heck out of me when I looked down and there it was on my chest! Get it checked out.
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I had my doctor look at it, and the stitches were good to come out so he put in an order to have one of the dialysis nurses do it today, they did and turns out those stitches were hanging by a thread!
Troy
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I had one of my chest catheters come out at night. Scare the heck out of me when I looked down and there it was on my chest! Get it checked out.
Kitkatz — reading that made me shudder... :o
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I had one of my chest catheters come out at night. Scare the heck out of me when I looked down and there it was on my chest! Get it checked out.
Kitkatz — reading that made me shudder... :o
Let me tell you it made me shudder, too.