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Wow. A couple of thoughts: first, I have a PICC line in, and my at home nurse told me you'd need to shove a cup of air up the line before there would be a problem. Not that I'm going to do that, but it made me feel better about a bubble or two.
Does the drs. office have a different nurse, that could perhaps help your husband? If it were me, I don't think this last one you had would get a second chance.
As far as "having something inserted" for your husband to do his own injections, again, I currently have a PICC line in which I do IV pushes of ceftriaxone and also saline flushes. Is that what they were talking about giving your husband? Because that is inserted as an inpatient procedure at radiology, definately not by a nurse in a doctors office.
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Perhaps the physician assistant could do it. I don't know how to ask for that without it being awkward. I'm not sure the PA would be any better, though. She totally botched my husband's first bicillin injection.
It's not a PICC line the doctor was talking about. Oh, my husband just told me--it's a peripheral line.
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Janice, Is this for real? If so, these people sound like clowns and I'd be concerned about being under their care. The glutatione push incident sounds downright bizarre even though I dont think small air bubbles are dangerous (at least from what I've heard).
How on earth could you LLMD's assistant not know how to do a Bicillin injection? That alone would concern me.
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My daughter gets peripheral lines because she cannot get a PICC line or port. They last a couple to four days at a time. She does the "push" method for rocephin and it works out fine. We are lucky that our doctor's office has an infusion section that does this everyday if need be. I think the nurses insert midlines, too.
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