Accessing and De-accessing an Implanted Port

This was a very helpful video regarding my new Port and Chemo treatment.  I wish I had seen this before I had the Port inserted and then accessed.  Thank you.

Very informative. I wish I could see how the needle is inserted and removed

This is wonderful and all..But the horrible editing on the nurses annoys me.

Was there a reason why these bright nurses did not memorize their lines?

I would also like to see how the needle goes in because of the way the needle is angled at the end.

Hollywood technicalities aside, BRAVO!

thanks, but I was expecting camera will be zoom in when nurse inserting needle in to port!,,,SMH.

Mike was the MVP here

Ahh! How Uniquely American! DIY unskilled people removing and inserting needles. This is what our media and politicians call the "Best Medical Care in the World!" WTF! Watch 'Where to Invade Next' to see how countries take care of their ill.

Handhygiene is very important...he says while he washes his hands with his watch on!

I know that they sasaid that only a nurse or other healthcare professional, but what about those patients (like me) who has been given approval and authorization for doing port care ourselves (patients)????

There are several RN on this video but none of them noticed/know that saline flush is not sterile and therefore should not have been placed on the sterile-field or touched by the sterile gloves?

If they opened the saline flush while sterile wouldnt that break the sterile field ?

Wrong! I am NOT watching this because I or someone I know have a catheter, I’m watching out of sheer CURIOSITY, to know how they are accessed. 😂

As a patient with a port, after removing the needle, please don't apply pressure to stop bleeding! It HURTS! And it is not necessary. Just tape gauze on top and it will stop on its own. Thanks!

You can tell they are all reading off a screen or something.

From someone with a port..do not press on it! That hurts! It bleeds very little when the needle is pulled out. Just put a bandaid on it and call it a day. No need for pressure...its not gushing blood.
I also get all blood draws through my port. No IV sticks. It's also been used during surgeries...
I tell people all the time..I love my port! Best decision ever.

Felt like watching a video before the plane take off... please fasten your seat belt

They. are. talking. like. robots! Haha.

Omg I’m at MAINE Med right now and I have a port and dorice is a really nice nurse

Omg Maria I know her too

Hello thanks for the vedio its really informative .. a port have been inserted to my grandma am asking can i use it again after 3 years scince insertion!

Nice job

I’m just watching this because I’m bored.

Good to know

literally the 10 seconds that mattered most, the sticking the needle in, could hardly be seen because of the camera angle .. thats baffling to me

I've had my infuseport in 2005 and because my primary failed to consult with the surgeon in a timely manner, I was told by the surgeon that he could not remove it. So, here we are in 2020 and I still have my port. Not once did a nurse wash her hands in front of me in my hospital room, but everything else you have explained here in your video is correct. Now, what your video does not show is how painful accessing the port can be for patients such as myself or maybe over time the area has become sensitive. However, do you have a video that shows how nurses should access a port that is very positional?

I’ve had my port for 2 weeks. I had to go in for fluids and I thought I woluld go through th ceiling when the nurse put the needle in and jiggled it around. I go for treatment tomorrow and I am petrified

I had cancer and I had a port one time they couldn’t get it accessed and they just did an iv

Thank u for this..as a nursing student i easily understand this procedure

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As an RN myself i suggest at least memorizing your lines so you don't look like students

My port only bleeds when a nurse applys pressure to it. I truly don't think pressure is needed with a port. It's not a IV. Not to mention it hurts.

I have sickle cell disease. I had mine accessed yesterday for my Adakveo treatment which is to lessen the amount of sickle cell crisis(es) that occur.

I don't use any type of numbing meds at all.

Do not ever allow anyone to access your port with an alcohol swab or pad.. it has to be Chlorohexidene... not sure if I spelled that right.

I don't have veins so my port is used when I see my hemoc doc or in the ER for IV meds, labs, and transfusions.

When the nurses at my hemoc doc access it they ALWAYS get it in on the first stuck BUT last week when I had to go to the ER the nurse lied about being able to access a port and stuck me in my right. She took the needle out & again the same thing. She proceeded to say I needed a new port amongst other rude things because of her messing up YET When a dif nurse came in to do it she had no issues plus got great blood return which my port has always been easy to access & get blood from. She was pushing down hard on it as well..
I was already in excruciating pain from the sickle cell crisis & being stuck 3 times def didn't help.

As they stated in the vid do not hesitate to speak up or ask questions! Having knowledge about your port is a good thing!

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Man Mike looks like Dexter Morgan & Joey Biden had a kid! The blank stare & obviously reading from something!!

Providers...please start normalizing telling your patients whether you've implanted a power port or not

Please remove your watch and don't wear long sleeves , basic infection control rulesust be used .

Needle insertion and removal are the main part but you elected not to show it. Why do you need 100 people to make this mediocre video? You get a line, you get a line, I start a phrase and you finish it

I just had a port a cath installed yesterday and am glad to see this. It’s been years since I accessed one as a nurse. I don’t have cancer, but need monthly IVIG, Iv iron, & await a pancreas transplant.

Where do we get this "Port Passport/Passbook"? It's sounds like an excellent thing to have as a log of when your port is accessed and if there were any problems, how the issues were resolved, when it was checked with X-rays, etc.
I was not given anything like this and no one I've talked to has ever heard of such a log.

Maybe put the gloves on first and then wash your hands . Like at the grocery store . The casher wears gloves but none of the shoppers .

Watching as an ED RN cuz I feel bad poking around my cancer pts 😢

Slightly robotic performance, but since (it looks like) they are reading from a monitor or such and they aren't actors I understand.

Am i the only one who thinks the port on this patient is oddly placed like it's right by the shoulder

Does the nurse need to wear mask when removing the port?

I get admitted frequently through the ER and I'm having a port placed in 3 days. I'm wondering if all nurses are knowledgeable with accessing ports or if I'm going to run into problems with people not knowing what to do.

This video was useless. The insertion wasn't shown. Neither was the removal of the needle. Both of these critical moments were not filmed.

I have a port a cath (ps u can tell they're reading the script)