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yes I flushed it at the beginning of the shift, flushed easily with blood return. Then, I hung the bag later and it flushed with blood return again. I work at a nursing home btw, so I cant really answer these questions. I had to send the pt out but she returned later and the night nurse hung the bag.. and everything went fine. Its a nursing home so they don't have the best pumps, I just feel like the worst nurse right now. I've hung antibiotics before and this has never happened.. The emt thought her bp was high but her bp was 130/70, but I've read that blood reflux can happen if the bag isnt high enough.. idk
Well, in 99.9% of the cases where I see this happening to nurses is when they do NOT thread the tubing into the pump appropriately.
Take for instance the Flogard 6201 series pump, it will let you erroneously thread the tubing in upside down, and you'll know when this happens because blood will be sucked out of their vascular system and up the IV tubing. Remember, in this case, what comes off of the top of the pump door, MUST go to the IV bag and not the patient. If it goes to the patient, you have the tubing in backwards.
Hmm.. i don't really think the tubing was backwards bc the pump only let's u lock the tubing into place one way. It won't lock into place if the tubing is upside down I tried doing that when I was trained. But that's the only logical answer why blood reflux occurred but I really don't think it was backwards ugh
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Hi I'm a new nurse and sorry didn't know where to post this either! But I had a pt with a picc line and a iv antibiotic was ordered so I primed n hung the bag. Everything seemed fine so I left the room n 10 min later the pump is going off n there is dried clotted blood in half the line. The picc wouldn't flush anymore.. so what did I do wrong?