Friday, May 8, 2009

Biopatch, Here We Come

We followed Boston's 2007 dressing change protocol exclusively until now. Up to this point, Bo had never had a site infection and only one line infection. The last 2 months he's had 2 site infections back to back. So for today's dressing change, we will try the J&J Biopatch. It's a foam disc @ the size of a dime impregnated with chlorhexidine. Hopefully, Bo is no longer sensitive (I know, I'm hoping) to this chemical. It's a microbicide that should kill the bacteria that dare come near the site.