One Minute Catheter Check

Do you have a hemodialysis catheter?

A hemodialysis catheter is a ”bridge” to a fistula or graft. Make sure you check your catheter every day. Learn how to do your “one minute catheter check” below.

For Patients:

Here are tools to help you do your one minute catheter check:

Step 1: Look

Step 2: Feel

This video shows how to do the
one minute catheter check:

 

Downloadable Documents:

Download Complete Patient Guide Download Patient One Sheet Download Patient Step 1: Look Download Patient Step 2: Feel

For Professionals:

Here are tools to show you how to “check before you connect”:

Step 1: Look

Step 2: Listen

Step 3: Feel

Here is a video to show you
how to do the catheter check:

 

Downloadable Documents:

Download Complete Staff Guide Download Staff One Sheet Download Staff Step 1: Look Download Staff Step 2: Listen Download Staff Step 3: Feel
 

Added Resources:

Fistula First Change Concept 7

  • AVF placement in patients with catheters where indicated
  • Regardless of prior access (e.g. AV graft), nephrologists and surgeons evaluate all catheter patients as soon as possible for AVF, including mapping as indicated.
  • Facility implements protocol to track all catheter patients for early removal of catheter.

Vascular Access Atlas-Tunneled HD Catheters pg:13-28

  • CDC Scrub the Hub Protocol
  • CDC Infection Prevention Tools
  • National Action Plan to prevent HAIs: Roadmap to Elimination
  • Dialysis Bloodstream Infection Prevention Collaborative
  • CDC Provider Training Video and Print Resources

Preventing Bloodstream Infections in Outpatient Hemodialysis Patients

English:

En Español:

One Minute Catheter Check January 27, 2015