Asexyblond23
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Seeing as I just went thru this last week I know the name <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> It's called TPA. My picc was working fine for the first week then all of the sudden on thanksgiving it wouldnt flush. I would try to pull back on it and no blood was pulling back into the suringe. After about 2 hours it finally did. So i flushed it and ran my meds. That nights dose was a little slow but ok. 3 hours later I tried to flush it and it was a no go. I went to bed, the next morning I got up to run my morning dose, I tried again and nothing. For 2 hours I tried. I could get a little trickle of blood to come back in the tube line but nothing really. So I went to the ER and they said I had a clot. So they tired pushing in some TPA he must not have gotten much in b/c you couldnt really push anything in my line. After 10 mins he pulled back and it worked great. We flushed it and it worked fine. I believe that mine had a fibren sheeth in it. I had pulled back 2 before that week and that could of clogged my line up.