A leukemia patient said her portacath seemed swollen. Since I'm not very familiar with ports, and nothing about the concept of having a big hose hooked up to your veins in a semi-permanent fashion seems normal to me, I asked her nurse to evaluate the port (::shrug::), and then consulted Interventional Radiology, who placed the port, to have a look at it.
During rounds with the new attending today, I explained that I had not seen that many portacaths in my day, and wasn't sure what the range of normal looked like in terms of swelling or if this was an early infection.
His response: "It's like pornography. You know it when you see it. You'll know an infected port if you see one."
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