[pebbles]

We don't ever administer meds through the hard tubing or stopcocks of a CVP line, so this would never happen at our facility.

The CVP transducer line is connected to the port of a central line by another added stop-cock, not directly. So if you want to transduce a CVP you turn the stopcock to the transducer on. If you want to use that port for meds or infusions, you would add another stopcock to the port itself.

[CVICURN2003]

We frequently push IV meds through the CVP port, then flush and zero, Sometimes that is the ONLY place we have to run something "extra". Sometimes we have femoral A lines that have extended tubing on it to run to the trancducer on the opposite side of the bed with a port to draw from laying over the patients belly that could EASILY be confused with a CVP port by a nurse that may be in a hurry or not as concientious. And since I prefer safer is always better, I check and relable all of my lines at the beginning of my shift. We have had a subclvian A line recently (first one I've seen, was really cool), but the port could have easily been confused with a CVP port.