Special tubing and stopcock for diprivan??????

Hi all,

Okay-I'm in a new hospital that is 'isolated and diffrerent'. Here goes...Does anyone out there use low absorption tubing for diprivan? Also, the pharmacy supplies us with a four way stopcock that "must be used" with every tubing change (which, BTW, they only do every 24hrs). There is nothing in this facilities policy on using this tubing, and even the supervisors do not know the reason for the stopcocks-the stopcocks are from B. Braun and specifically say for use with diprivan...its a STOPCOCK none the less... no different that any other stopcock in this place .As for the tubing issue...I asked one nurse why she's using this...she said it was easier to vent the tubing to prime it (again). I asked her if she thinks that gets expensive when changing the tubing every 12 hrs (that flew over her head)...she said "change the tubing every 12 hrs????" Enough said! I use the vent that comes on every tubing set but what the hell do I know...I didn't work HERE for the last 100 years-which is how old the policies are. I try to do a little spoon-feeding education without seeming like a person trashing all they've been doing, but no one seems interestede in doing things that are based on current evidence--only what they have always done. thanks for listening