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by GingerSue

I am reading about postpartal management re: preeclampsia-eclampsia and there is mention of nursing care to DC buffalo cap if present

what is a buffalo cap? (I checked Google and get a variety of other topics about buffalo items)

[styRN]

Re: what is a buffalo cap?

Buffalo cap = Heparin/saline lock. Also called buff-caps, I believe it originally referred to a brand name of locks.

[muffie]

Re: what is a buffalo cap?

oh wow

[Nursonegreat]

Re: what is a buffalo cap?

when i worked in denver,co they were called BuffCaps...i was like what is a buff cap. they said, its a buffalo cap. i said ok, what is a buffalo cap. they said its a hep trap. i said why buffalo cap. they said they thought it was cause they were invented in buffalo. ok i am from buffalo and went to a school of nursing in buffalo and i never heard it called a buffcap. so i have no idea where it came from. we call em traps, hep traps, saline locks. go figure

[michellemybelle]

Re: what is a buffalo cap?

I go to school in Denver. These are called "buffalo caps" or "buff caps" because they were created here at University of Colorado Medical Center. The University's mascot is the buffalo.

Hope that clears it up!

Michelle

[GingerSue]

Re: what is a buffalo cap?

thanks for the explanations

I will never forget them.