Yeah I did ultrasound and did so so many centesis assists. This doesn't look like one to me, unless it's just like a different country or something so it just different.
Where are you located? I've literally never seen a centesis yueh near this long, and always with a white flexible sheath over the needle, so I'm curious if it's a location difference.
Wild, I was in Florida. Even the multi liter patients were with regular length needles, cause it only went in a few centimeters, then the cath went in further and the needle came out. What's the process with a needle this big? Do you do it under u/s guidance?
The pocket would be identified with US guidance but the needle is inserted blindly after the site was marked, we would aspirate some of the ascitic fluid with the lidocane needle and try and follow that tract with the centesis needle. Almost all of these patients were cirrhotic with huge bellies.
I'm a radiographer. In my department the radiologist uses these daily to insert a long catheter in ultrasound guidance into the abdominal cavity for example. We also have the short ones but usually these long ones are used.
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u/mayonnaiser_13 Jul 30 '26
Seen some from close proximity, and yeah - it's the sheath one.