Webfoot

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1. baxter pump with pigback pca pump????

   Webfoot posted a topic in Infusion

   Has anyone ever heard piggybacking a pca pump programmed to infuse med at 12mg/hr(1.2cc) to a line of D5NS running in via Baxter pump which is programmed to infuse at 45cc/hr. I have difficulty understanding how the dose of med would be accurate if...

2. Morphine Gel

   Webfoot replied to Nurse Hatchett's topic in Hospice

   Not familiar with morphine gel.....in our facility we often use s.c. buttons for morphine when oral route is not feasible and we have no iv access. Eliminates the patient being stuck all the time.

3. Morphine Gel

   Webfoot replied to Nurse Hatchett's topic in Hospice

   Been using Ativan gel....not too impressed with it....Wonder how much is absorbed and how much is left on the nurse's glove....Higher dose is necessary...