# OnCo record indwelling-pleural-catheter-drainage-at-home (protocol). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/protocols/indwelling-pleural-catheter-drainage-at-home/>
  a schema:MedicalGuideline ;
  onco:kind "protocol" ;
  schema:identifier "indwelling-pleural-catheter-drainage-at-home" ;
  schema:name "Indwelling pleural catheter: draining fluid from the chest at home"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "IPC drainage"@en, "PleurX drainage at home"@en, "Rocket IPC drainage"@en, "tunnelled pleural catheter care"@en, "home drainage of a malignant pleural effusion"@en, "draining a pleural catheter"@en ;
  schema:description "An indwelling pleural catheter is a thin tube left in the chest so that fluid caused by cancer can be drained at home, by a nurse, a relative or yourself, using vacuum bottles. Drain as often as your breathing needs, or daily if the aim is for the fluid to stop; slow or stop if it hurts; and call the team for fever, redness, a damaged tube, or worse breathlessness when nothing drains."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/protocols/indwelling-pleural-catheter-drainage-at-home/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-11-11"^^xsd:date ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/protocols/care-in-the-last-days-of-life/>, <https://onco.cc/protocols/malignant-ascites-drainage/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/lung-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/mesothelioma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/pleural-mesothelioma/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/indwelling-pleural-catheters/> ;
  onco:drugs <https://onco.cc/drugs/talc-sclerosant/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/malignant-pleural-effusion/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/pleurodesis/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/pleural-effusion/> .