drug interaction

[kenchie21]

hi iam a new staff in icu, i had 1 pt with 4 infusion namely Levophed, Dopamine, Amiodaron, and lasix. She had a 3 lumen CVC. In 1 lumen i connected Levophed and dopamine. My incharge told me it was wrong!! How come this will be wrong both of them were sympathomimetics drugs. pls help me.

thanks,

kenchie21

[nrsang97, BSN, RN]

As long as both are compatible in the same line then no problem. Always check with pharmacy or use compatibility chart to see if compatible.

[kenchie21]

thanks a lot i search also in the net and it was stated here that levophed is compatible via Y-site with dopamine. :)

[momof2RN]

In our ICU we y-site them together all the time. They are compatible according to every drug book I've looked in.

[GingerSue]

did the in charge explain why?

[CVICURN2003]

hi iam a new staff in icu, i had 1 pt with 4 infusion namely Levophed, Dopamine, Amiodaron, and lasix. She had a 3 lumen CVC. In 1 lumen i connected Levophed and dopamine. My incharge told me it was wrong!! How come this will be wrong both of them were sympathomimetics drugs. pls help me.

thanks,

kenchie21

We ALWAYS piggyback them together. And we use levo-regitine. So what was your charges suggestion? I would not be real excited about using any of those in a periph, maybe the lasix. Our unit has a chart that was put together by the pharmacy of what can be put together. We use it everyday. Usually our come up 6+ gtts so we have to manage them.