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The patient can retain mobility during infusion by putting the pump in a pouch or bag on a belt (like a bum bag). The patient must return to the treatment center for the second day of their treatment, to have the pump changed unless a chemotherapy nurse is available to change the pump at the patient's home.
A type of infusion pump, manufactured by Fresenius. An infusion pump infuses fluids, medication or nutrients into a patient's circulatory system. It is generally used intravenously, although subcutaneous, arterial and epidural infusions are occasionally used. Infusion pumps can administer fluids in ways that would be impractically expensive or ...
To deliver chemotherapy to cancer patients who must undergo treatment frequently. Chemotherapy is often toxic, and can damage skin and muscle tissue, and therefore should not be delivered through these tissues. Ports provide a solution, delivering drugs quickly and efficiently through the entire body via the circulatory system.
Hepatic arterial infusion (HAI) is a medical procedure that delivers chemotherapy directly to the liver. The procedure, mostly used in combination with systemic chemotherapy, plays a role in the treatment of liver metastases in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). [ 1 ]
In one method, embospheres bound with chemotherapy agents injected into the hepatic artery, lodge in downstream capillaries. The spheres not only block blood flow to the lesions but by halting the chemotherapy agents in the neighborhood of the lesions, they provide a much better targeting leverage than chemo infusion provides.
To get continuous infusion chemo (over 24 hours or longer) To get nutrition; To get frequent treatments; To get treatments at home; To get long-term therapy (over many months or even longer) To get drugs that can cause serious damage to skin and muscle tissue if they leak outside a vein (these drugs are known as vesicants).
When a blood vessel supplying the tumor has been selected, alternating doses of the chemotherapy dose and of embolic particles, or an infusion of embolic particles containing the chemotherapy agent, are injected through the catheter . The physician removes the catheter and access sheath, applying pressure to the entry site to prevent bleeding.
Intravenous therapy (abbreviated as IV therapy) is a medical technique that administers fluids, medications and nutrients directly into a person's vein.The intravenous route of administration is commonly used for rehydration or to provide nutrients for those who cannot, or will not—due to reduced mental states or otherwise—consume food or water by mouth.