Cancer and other medical conditions may require intravenous medications or frequent blood draws. For easier vein access, the Vascular & Interventional Specialists medical providers offer chest port placement procedures on an outpatient basis. The physicians use minimally invasive techniques to position the port in your chest wall and connect it to a catheter. They also offer in-office procedures to remove a chest port you no longer need. Call the Miami, Florida, office to schedule a chest port placement consultation or book an appointment online today.
A chest port is a medical device that goes underneath the skin of your chest wall. The port makes it easy to access your veins if you frequently need medications for an underlying medical condition.
Chest port placement is a minimally invasive procedure to place the device, which includes a catheter (thin, flexible tube) and a plastic or metal reservoir.
Vascular & Interventional Specialists offers chest port placement procedures for adults on an outpatient basis.
You may be a candidate for the chest port placement procedures at Vascular & Interventional Specialists if you have a serious infection, cancer, or another condition that requires frequent injections of medications. Direct access to the veins in your chest eliminates the need for frequent needle sticks.
You might also benefit from chest port placement if you’re undergoing medical care for an illness or injury and need to have frequent blood draws.
The providers offer comprehensive evaluations to ensure you’re healthy enough for a port placement procedure.
During your chest port placement procedure at Vascular & Interventional Specialists, the providers administer a local anesthetic to numb your chest.
They make a small incision in your chest wall below your collarbone and place the port reservoir in a pocket under your skin. Your physician also inserts a small catheter into a vein at the base of your neck and tunnels it under your skin to attach it to the port reservoir.
Once the chest port is in position, your provider closes the incisions with dissolvable sutures. You can expect to spend time recovering from sedation before you can go home to relax. You need to limit your activities for up to two weeks after receiving your chest port to prevent complications.
You can keep your chest port for several months or years, depending on your needs. Your provider checks the port during routine office visits to ensure it’s clean and functional. If you no longer need it, the specialists can remove the chest port during another in-office procedure.
Call the Vascular & Interventional Specialists office to schedule a consultation for chest port placement, or book an appointment online today.