A new critical care MD in our unit ordered diprivan per short term sedation protocol ONLY through a central line.
When I asked him about it, he said "none of MY patients will receive diprivan through a peripheral line;it'll eat their vein up". He is the only MD that has stated that. If the pt. has a central line then we use it and if they're on TPN we y it into that. But many of the pt's we have we use a #20 or #18 peripheral to infuse diprivan without problems.
