pitocin after delivery,how do you do it?

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ok everyone I want to know how you give pitocin after lady partsl delivery. how do you mix it? what rate you give it? do you titrate it to bleeding ? if so how much for how long. how long do they normally recieve pitocin in their IVfluids after deliver? please share anything else you feel is important.

if it is an induction or augmentation they have a bag up of 30 units in 500 cc LR, which is standard for everyone. usually most of it isn't even used considering how slow we run it. so after delivery of the placenta I'll just open it up and let it run. then once that is done, we put up 1000 cc LR with 20 units of pit. The docs never specify what they want in regards to the pit, they just say turn on the pit please. if they weren't an induction, or that 500 cc bag is low, we run 2 bags of 1000cc with the 20 units each. I wish that we had a specifc protocol that said what was right. for c-sections, they get 1 liter LR from anesthesia with 20 units. then 2 liters D5LR with 20 units each from us.

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he WATCHES sporting events during DELIVERIES?????? WTF???

he would fall under """persons injured by a patient""" ...

lol...guess i would feign old cheerleader caught up in the heat of the game and JUST HADDDDD to KICK THE BALL!!!!!!

how disrespectful and DEMEANING to the laboring woman for the DR. *cough* to be watching a BALLGAME while she's birthing her child...NOT TO MENTION DISTRACTING....

oh man..feeling the blood boil and know ing i could go on and on...

**stepping down from the soapbox***

sorry for the RANT..

**curtsies and exits stage left***

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agree w/ you, most times it's 'cause "dad" already has the game on.

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