Re: Quaid twins and heparin, what dose does your unit use?
We use prepackaged hep flush syringes that are 1u/ml. We only use hep to flush central lines or AL's, we don't use them on PIV's. For our lines, we use 0.5u/ml bags that pharmacy makes. We don't even keep hep vials on the unit anymore, no where in the hospital does.
I can see how it would be easy to mix up, when you are just clipping along, you grab the vial, eyeball it, blue cap, yup, a one with some zeros, yup. Sometimes we do have to remind ourselves to slow down, but these companies do need to make things a bit safer by labeling things very clearly and not having the same color tops on vials of same meds but with different concentrations.
And, of course, that is never mentioned in the press releases. Frosts my cookies.
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