It was reported "the patient had a port placed in the or on 4/30.
On 5/1 after the third dose of mesna, the patient's dad noticed that there was blood on the patient's hospital gown.
Upon looking at the port dressing, there was blood and fluid within the port dressing as if the port was leaking.
Rn flushed the port and got great blood return when assessing the port dressing (i checked this patient's port for blood return with labs at 0900, one other time between 1000-1300 because the mivf running alarmed "line occluded", and again when assessing this port leakage situation).
When flushing the port, it looked like some ns was leaking into the dressing.
I stopped the mivf that was running and asked for help.
We thought maybe the port needle tubing was broken so we de-accessed and re-accessed the patient.
The patient's port site looked fine, no sign of infiltration or bogginess, it was just a little bit red around the port needle site.
It was noted that the patient's port was not steri-stripped down so when the patient was re-accessed we made sure to use steri-strips.
" "we saved the port needle tubing but could not find a breakage in the tubing.
It seems that when it is flushed, the fluid only comes out of the port needle and is not leaking anywhere else throughout the tubing.
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