This video provides a detailed guide on how to change an injection port at home, emphasizing the importance of a sterile environment and proper hygiene throughout the process. The video strongly advises contacting your healthcare provider if you have any questions.
The key steps include:
- Cleaning your work surface thoroughly.
- Washing your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds or using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, ensuring to clean between fingers, under fingernails, and up to the wrists.
- Gathering your supplies.
- Putting on a face mask for yourself and anyone within six feet of the central line.
- Washing or sanitizing hands again and setting up supplies on a clean work surface, ensuring all items are carefully dropped onto your sterile field.
- Ensuring the central line is clamped.
- Washing or sanitizing hands again and putting on sterile gloves.
- Setting up your sterile field and preparing items without touching outside the sterile field.
- Attaching a saline syringe to the sterile injection cap and priming it with saline.
- Picking up the central line using a sterile gauze pad with your non-dominant hand and holding it securely.
- Disinfecting the connection area between the old injection cap and the hub of the central line using a disinfectant wipe, scrubbing for 15 seconds and allowing 15 seconds to dry if using alcohol wipes.
- Removing the old injection cap using a new sterile gauze pad.
- Disinfecting the hub of the central line with a disinfectant wipe.
- Connecting the new primed injection cap to the central line.
- Unclamping the central line and flushing with normal saline.
- Repeating steps for additional lumens if applicable.
- Attaching a new disinfectant cap once complete.
- Disposing of supplies and washing your hands.
