tridil and heparin together?

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I would like to know how others hang their tridil and heparin IV when ordered on the same patient. Does your facility allow them to be infused via the same site? And which do you connect closest to the patient? Also, if you hang them to separate IV sites, do you run NSS with the tridil and which of those do you connect closest to the patient? It seems every time we do it here at my ER, each nurse does it differently.

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Dawn

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Specializes in OB, ER.

I had to look up what tridil was......I've never heard it called that. I thought for a minute I was really missing something. Anyway I do it like most of you have said. Nitro, saline, heparin all in one IV. The other site is for everything else. We usually don't do TPA because we have a cath lab on site and most AMI's are there in less then an hour.

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