Does anyone have the problem when they are hooking up to begin their treatment where after you have bleeded your lines and drawn back the blood and you notice that blood fibers are sticking to the walls of the tubing.
everytime I hook up, Blood tends to stick to the walls of the tubing. It looks like little fiber strands. even if you flush with saline, there is still some of the fibers that stick. Im worried that these will form into clots as the treatment continues.
anyone have any suggestions
[quote=justwondering;11657]Does anyone have the problem when they are hooking up to begin their treatment where after you have bleeded your lines and drawn back the blood and you notice that blood fibers are sticking to the walls of the tubing.
everytime I hook up, Blood tends to stick to the walls of the tubing. It looks like little fiber strands. even if you flush with saline, there is still some of the fibers that stick. Im worried that these will form into clots as the treatment continues.
anyone have any suggestions[/quote]
If its minor then you shouldn’t worry about it, but if its quite bad and your pressures are high while on dialysis then you may need a higher dose of heparin. Talk to your Dr. and clinic about it.
Blood doesn’t have fibers. So, there may be streaks that look like fibers because they get drawn out, but no actual fibers.
Does anyone else experience this problem lately? I also see what appears to be "fibers"or string like strands forming after bleeding back the lines. It looks like very thin strings within the tubing. Sometimes they bunch up. Even after flushing with saline, the strands are sometimes still there sticking to the walls of the needle tubing. Sometimes, it doesnt matter how much you flush with saline, they still stick to the sides of the tubing wall and look like strings. I have reported this to my Dr I was told that it is probably caused by platelates. I was told not to be concearned, but was just wondering if anyone else experieneces this and what they do for it if anything.
Try gently squeezing the line between your thumb and finger and slide down the line to dislodge the cells. I was trained to do this years ago – and still do it even when it probably isn’t necessary. It must be a hold over from old dialysis days when the tubing surface was not as smooth.
Mel
[QUOTE=justwondering;11657]Does anyone have the problem when they are hooking up to begin their treatment where after you have bleeded your lines and drawn back the blood and you notice that blood fibers are sticking to the walls of the tubing.
everytime I hook up, Blood tends to stick to the walls of the tubing. It looks like little fiber strands. even if you flush with saline, there is still some of the fibers that stick. Im worried that these will form into clots as the treatment continues.
anyone have any suggestions[/QUOTE]
Hi,
What do you mean by the “bleeded your lines”? And when you see the blood threads, is this before or after giving heparin?