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What is your hospital policy? Where I work, IV tubing is changed every 24 hours. Other than that, there is no reason not to use the same tubing.
For ALL meds? Some of our meds are q12h, some q24h, and most q96h.
While I don't doubt this is your policy, it does seem a bit excessive and wasteful in most scenarios. I'm just wondering what evidence it's based on and how they came to that policy.
Are the floors like this, or just the ICU?
Hello everyone I just had a quick question. At work one day I saw a nurse hang a new bag of 5% Dextrose on the same tubing the 5% Dextrose 0.45%NACL was hanging on. The doctor discontinued the 5% dextrose 0.45%NACL and wanted the 5%dextose to be started. My question is should she have got a new tubing for the dextrose since it wasn't all the way the same order? And if so would that hurt the patient. Thank you for your help:)
I too would not worry about this practice in this case. Your rule of thumb is to first assess compatibility between what is hanging and what you want to hang next. In this case, the solutions are compatible and as long as the tubing is still within date (for your organization - which in many cases is 72 hours), hang the D5W.
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Hello everyone I just had a quick question. At work one day I saw a nurse hang a new bag of 5% Dextrose on the same tubing the 5% Dextrose 0.45%NACL was hanging on. The doctor discontinued the 5% dextrose 0.45%NACL and wanted the 5%dextose to be started. My question is should she have got a new tubing for the dextrose since it wasn't all the way the same order? And if so would that hurt the patient. Thank you for your help:)