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Old Jan 04, 2008, 08:31 PM
pattyew54 (Female)
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In school for LPN. We have to find out - how do you clean/care for pins on an external fixator(i.e. fractured leg) in a hospital setting as an LPN? Nothing in our books, so we were told to look elsewhere over the weekend & see what we could find. ANY help from you experienced LPNs or RNs would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!

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Our RNs use cotton swabs and a mixture of half peroxide and half sterile saline. We thoroughly clean each pin with a different swab with no "double dipping" into the solution. That is our hospital policy.

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