[VickyRN]

ISMP is asking for your help in defining the scope of the problem and prioritizing strategies to avoid severe tissue damage when administering IV promethazine. Please complete the survey even if you no longer use promethazine in your facility. Submit your responses to ISMP by

Sept 29, 2006, via the Internet or fax (215-914-1492). Thanks for your participation!

http://www.ismp.org/survey/Survey200608.asp

[VickyRN]

For more information on the dangers of IV push promethazine, please see:

http://www.ismp.org/Newsletters/nurs...eERR200608.pdf

[rninme]

interesting. We always dilute it....and give through a running iv. Not my first choice. We use zofran....then I'll ask for compazine as my next choice. Last facility that I worked at....we didn't use promethazine for exactly the reasons the ISMP alert stated.

[floridaRNtoo]

Our facility has a policy against giving promethazine via the IV route. We can give it IM