Disposable IV Canunulation Sets

[kaletra]

Any of your area of practice using the disposable iv cannulation set?? The ultimate objective of the set is of course infection control, time saving in preparing for IV cannulation which each new patient requires. From my understanding from online vendors website, it usually come with alcohol swab, disposable tourniquet, trans parent dressing . I'm thinking of introducing it my area of work . do give me some feedback of the set.

[suzanne4, RN]

All it is the supplies packaged in one kit. Really does not save much, especially if you need to pit in a couple of ivs, or have issues putting in one, and then need another kit. Not necessarily very cost effective, especially if you need to get them shipped in, which more than likely you will need to do.

Does it save time? Not really, I prefer to gather my own supplies and many faccilities have changed over to a different company for the dressing, so it is just being wasted from the kits.

[begalli]

We have them but i never use them

How hard is it to grab a tourniquet, alchol swab, a 2x2, some tape and an op-site? Most of these things are already in my pocket.

I think they just create unecessary waste.

Cost effective? I doubt it.

[TazziRN, RN]

We have them, I use some things and not others.

[P_RN, ADN, RN]

If the kit doesn't contain the "needle" then it's pretty useless. If I want to use say a 20g that's what I go get.

If the kit does contain the needle then it's pretty useless.

To have half dozen of each gauge from 16-25 would not be cost effective.

[Otessa, BSN, RN]

We had them at a hospital where I worked and if you have to poke them more than once then you have to open an entirely new kit and then you are left with all of these wasted alcohol swabs and dressings,tourniquets.....I thought it was wasteful

[Otessa, BSN, RN]

At the hospital I work with now each patient has their own tourniquet in their cabinet for lab and IV sticks. There are dressings and alcohol swabs in the cabinet-all sterile and separate. All you need to bring in the room are the IV catheters(size of your choosing), connector/lock and saline.....

[OC_An Khe]

We use the disposable sets all the time. The IV cannula, hep lok, and flushes are not part of the set. I like them and have no difficulty with them.

[ICRN2008, BSN, RN]

The kits at my hospital do not contain the needle/canula set or the flush. They contain Chloroprep,a tourniquet, a drape, some gauze, a small role of tape, and some Tegaderm. I find them pretty useful, but I have never been in a situation where I've had to gather the supplies myself.

As an aside, most nurses at my hospital do not flush with saliine when they start a new IV. Rather, they just hook the patient up to the IV tubing and let 'er rip. Is this a typical practice in most hospitals? I think that I will continue to flush for quite a while, because this is what I was taught in school.

[Gompers, BSN, RN]

We only have kits for changing dressings on PICC lines - they have the sterile gloves, tape, betadine, alcohol, gauze, and Tegaderm in them. THOSE kits are very nice and save a lot of time.

For IVs, we instead have a bunch of boxes filled with supplies. IV cannulas, alcohol, gauze, Tegaderm, tape, flushes, heplock tubing, syringes, arm boards, and rubber bands (the NICU version of a tourniquet). When we're starting an IV, we grab the box and are good to go. We only use what supplies we need, so it's not as wasteful as using a pre-made kit.

We do flush after placing an IV, but I think neo and peds do things a bit differently than the rest of the hospital. Whenever I've had an IV as an adult, first they place the catheter, then they draw labs, then they just hook up the IV to fluids, no flushing. It's a lot easier to see if you've got a good stick in an adult than a baby or child. We don't even get blood return on some of our IV sticks besides the flash in the cannula, depending on the kid's blood pressure (or should I say lack thereof).

[HappyNurse2005, RN]

We do have the IV kits

one pack has

tourniquet

small roll of tape

1 2x2

tegaderm/opsite (whatever we are calling it these days)

chloraprep

of course, you separately have to get out the Iv cannula and the flush. Thats a pain in the orifice. And of course, now we have those stupid prefilled flushes, too.(ya know, so we can charge the pt for one morething!)

Back in teh days of IV trays, everything was in the tray, just grab and go in the room. Even had a mini needle box for disposing. I've only been in it a year-too young to think of teh "good ol days"

[htrn]

We use IV start kits which include: 2 alcohol pads, betadine crush/guaze tube thingy, opsite, small roll of tape, and tournaquit (?sp). I think they are wasteful as I usually don't use everything in the kit. We have a mega butt ton of tournaquets hanging around from these kits.

The only reason I use them is I have been told the charge for the kit includes the nursing charge for actually starting the IV.