zofran question

[Nurse Lulu]

I was thinking maybe onc nurses/someone else might know. I work in IICU and recently had a patient with a zofran gtt, on his MAR. Anyone else seen this? I am a relatively new nurse but was a pharm tech for six years, and have never seen this. This patient never even needed his push zofran for me..... I'm confused. CAT

[KSU-SN]

zofran IS compatible with LR. I looked it up in 2 drug books and the manufacturer's website. Work on a med/surg floor and have given it with LR hundreds of times with no problems.

[loriangel14, RN]

We have it on my floor as a dissolvable wafer you put on their tongue, tablets, liquid and IV. The liquid is flavored.

[Bumashes, MSN, APRN, NP]

We have zofran gtts on my floor often. It's usually got something like 24-32mg Zofran in 250cc NS and we run it somewhere around 9-15cc/hr. Sometimes it gets mixed with Reglan, too, depending on how bad the pt's n/v is. I work med/surg/tele/onc by the way.

[nwrn2010]

Zofran is definitely compatible with LR. However, I recently gave zofran IVP with LR being the primary IVF and ampicillin had finished infusing as IVPB and found that it's not compatible with ampicillin. Precipitate formed so I clamped the line, no harm done but still scary! Will never do that again! Now I find it good practice to flush the line before and after IVPs!!! :)

For the post about it being incompatible with LR, perhaps there was something else hanging that made it incompatible?