Personal Medical Devices

Watch how regularly and safely cleaning your PICC line helps to keep your device working properly and prevent infection.

Here are the steps for flushing your IV line.

Learn when and how to safely change the injection cap on your PICC line.

Watch how and when to safely change and throw away soiled dressings, and how to recognize signs of infection at the insertion site.

Watch these tips to keeping your long-term PICC line infection-free and in good working order, and how to recognize infections and serious health complications.

See how your healthcare provider will quickly and easily remove your PICC line when it is no longer needed.

If you're leaving the hospital with a PICC line, or peripherally inserted central catheter, it is important to know why you have the PICC line what questions to ask of your care provider and your role in maintaining it and avoiding infection. This video helps explains your PICC line care. 

Learn the steps for caring for your IV catheter at home.

Watch this video to learn what you and your family need to do to keep your implanted access port working well and complication-free.

Watch this video to learn how your implanted access port will be flushed to clean it on the inside in order to prevent infection and clotting.

Watch this video to learn how to properly care for your implanted port to keep it infection free and in good working order to keep it in use for several weeks to months.

Watch this video to learn how your implanted access port will be properly removed by your healthcare provider.

This video shows how to insert a reusable urinary catheter.

This video shows how to insert a reusable urinary catheter.

Learn what a urinary catheter is and how it works to help empty your bladder when you can't do it on your own.

Learn the proper time and method to empty and clean your drainage bag.

Here are the steps to emptying your urinary catheter bag.

Here are the steps for cleaning your urinary catheter bag.

Watch the steps for changing your urinary catheter bag.

Learn how properly cleaning, emptying and maintaining your urinary catheter is essential to preventing infection. Also, learn the signs of infection to be aware of.

Learn about living a healthy life with your urinary catheter and taking the necessary steps to ensure it stays clean, healthy and infection free.

Learn that your catheter will be removed by your healthcare provider at the appropriate time and how to care for yourself after its removal.

During a hospital stay you may need to have a urinary catheter inserted into your bladder. However, that catheter can be a setup for a urinary-tract infection. Learn more about urinary catheter safety and simple steps you can take to protect yourself or a loved one.

If you are leaving the hospital with a urinary catheter in place, you'll need to learn how to take care of it. This program offers easy instructions on cleaning and caring for your urinary catheter.

A Foley catheter is a rubber tube that is placed through the urethra (opening where urine comes out) and into the bladder. This helps drain urine from the bladder. There is a small balloon on the end of the tube that is inflated after insertion. This keeps the catheter from sliding out of the bladder.

Watch this video to learn the proper method for emptying your surgical drain to ensure your recovery from surgery is comfortable and complication free.

Here are the steps showing how to empty your drain after surgery.

Watch this video to learn how to properly change your surgical dressings in order to prevent infection and keep your surgical drain healthy.

Watch this video to learn when to call your doctor if you experience serious side effects while caring for your surgical drain.

Watch this video to understand the factors that go into consideration when your healthcare provider decides when to remove your surgical drain.

Doctors commonly leave this drain within the abdominal cavity after surgery. It helps prevent swelling and reduces the risk for infection. The tube is held in place by a few stitches. It is covered with a bandage. Your doctor will remove the drain when he or she determines you no longer need it.

Understand the importance of properly changing the dressings covering your CVC, in order to prevent infection.

Learn helpful everyday tips to ensure your central venous catheter stays clean, infection free, and in good working order.

Understand when CVC will be removed, and what you can expect at that time.

Watch this video to learn how to properly clean the reusable inner cannula from your tracheostomy, and the steps to take to avoid infection.

Watch this to learn the steps for cleaning your tracheostomy.

Watch this to learn how to change your tracheostomy.

Learn how to properly care for your tracheostomy stoma to ensure you are breathing comfortably and to prevent infection.

Understand why breathing through a tracheostomy causes your body to produce more mucus and the steps you can take to avoid a mucus build-up. Also, learn what you can do to get rid of a mucus build-up when you do get one.

Watch this to learn the steps to suction your tracheostomy.

Learn steps for living with a tracheostomy to ensure it stays working well and infection free. Also, learn circumstances for which you should call your healthcare provider or 911.

Learn what to expect when it comes time for your tracheostomy to be removed, allowing you to breathe through your nose and mouth again.

If you or a loved one is discharged from a hospital with a tracheostomy, knowing how to care for the stoma and tracheostomy, including tips to avoid infection as well as the signs of infection, is critical to maintaining your health. This video walks through simple steps of tracheotomy care.

Suctioning keeps your trach tube clear of excess mucus. Suction as instructed by your healthcare provider. Follow these guidelines and any others you're given.

If your surgeon has given you a new airway during surgery, it may be in place for only a short time while you heal. Or if your larynx has been removed, you'll continue breathing through this new airway. In either case, your healthcare team will help you adjust.

Watch this clip and learn how to properly care for your AV graft to ensure it is kept infection-free and in good working order.

Watch this to learn the steps for bolus tube feeding.

Your feeding tube has been replaced. Unless advised otherwise, you may resume your usual feeding schedule. Feeding tubes are usually replaced every 6 to 12 months.

Learn how to care for yourself at home after you've had a feeding tube inserted.

Your feeding tube has been replaced with a Foley catheter. Read on to learn how to care for yourself at home.