Drawing Blood From a Hickman Catheter

1
Drawing Blood From a Hickman Catheter

• Gather your supplies
• gloves
• alcohol wipes
• vacutainer set
• blood tubes
• normal saline
• heparin flush
• Posiflow adaptor

2
Drawing Blood from a Hickman

• Wash hands
• Put on gloves
• Put vacutainer together
• Remove Posiflow adapter
• Scrub the catheter hub with 2 alcohol wipes

3

• Connect the vacutainer to the catheter.
• Unclamp the catheter
• Push the waste tube onto the vacutainer and fill
  with blood, remove tube and discard
• Push sample tube (s) onto vacutainer and fill
  with blood

4

• When all labs have been obtained, clamp the
  catheter and remove the vacutainer device
• Scrub the catheter with 2 alcohol wipes
• Attach a new Posiflow adaptor
• Unclamp the catheter
• Flush with 3 ccs of Normal Saline and 2 ccs of
  100 unit/ml Heparin
• Clamp the catheter