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Oncology Nursing Practice
Safe subcutaneous (SC) administration of chemotherapy and immunotherapy has been aided by the addition of hyaluronidase, a dispersion enhancer that facilitates spreading of the injected volume into subcutaneous space. Nurses administer these agents over approximately 2-8 minutes and report fatigue and difficulty maintaining stability of the SC needle, which can increase patient discomfort. Nurses have the option to use a SC needle or a winged butterfly infusion set (24g Saf-T-Intima™), as a 24g Saf-T-Intima™ IV catheter system can be inserted into subcutaneous tissue and used for SC infusion therapy,...