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Ep. 153 Mediport Placement with Dr. Chris Beck

BackTable Vascular & Interventional

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How to Make a Port Pocket

I like to make one cut. And so it's like one firm cut. I remember whenever it's in training, I was a little bit ginger about making that first incision. You know, you wouldn't take it all the way through the sub cue layer. Once I've made that one cut, I just dissect straight down to the chest wall. And then everything else I do is blunt the section with my finger. If I run into like a little sinew, I'll just pop it withMy finger. And then I just kind of push inferiorly along the chestwall. But I try and keep my port pockets pretty tight. Because I feel like that is a thing in

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