[Cat84]

I was thinking maybe onc nurses/someone else might know. I work in IICU and recently had a patient with a zofran gtt, on his MAR. Anyone else seen this? I am a relatively new nurse but was a pharm tech for six years, and have never seen this. This patient never even needed his push zofran for me..... I'm confused. CAT

[earle58]

i infuse zofran over 15 min, quite often.
many of my hospice pts use this route.

leslie

[I love my cat!]

HI!
It said: gtt, meaning drops? I though Zofran could only be administered IV or IM, but I could be wrong. IV/IM are the only two routes that I have ever administered it.

Did you get it figured out?

[meandragonbrett]

If it said "Zofran gtt" it would be likely talking about a zofran drip rather than zofran drops. A zofran drip would be totally worthless in my opinion (unless if the MAR reflects that it's given IVBP over 10-15 minutes).

[Emmanuel Goldstein]

I've seen it given as a continuous infusion.

[nrsang97]

I have only given it IVP. I learned in nursing school that it is NOT compatible with LR by the way. RN on the floor gave it through the same line and it precipitated.

[wtbcrna]

From Lexi-Comp's Drug Information Handbook: "24-hour continous infusions have been reported, but are rarely used".

I would ask the physician what the rationale is for the order. I have found when physicians come up with these strange orders it is usually based on some study they just read.

[Cat84]

Thanks guys this was a continuous infusion-odd. Thanks again for the info CAT

[NurseRatched67]

Used as a 15 minute premedication IVPB in chemo patients.

I have never seen it as continuous.....

[GrumpyRN63]

I've worked onc forever,I've never seen it as a gtt