Hi Heparin questions please

altomga, ADN, BSN, MSN, DNP, RN, APRN · Apr 15, 2003

bag of heparin 25,000units/500cc

order is to bolus 2000 units

pt's weight is 70kg

start gtt at 1550u/hr.

How many cc/hr on pump should the infusion run?

(yea I know...easy question:)

CCURN · Apr 15, 2003

You have a 20000 in 1cc vial, and you want 7800 units, how many cc.

RNIAM, BSN, RN · Apr 15, 2003

CCURN

is it 0.39cc's?

The first question is a little over my head yet,sorry. I haven't had to figure weights into it yet.

P_RN, ADN, RN · Apr 15, 2003

Weight?

Are all your heparin bags the same concentration? When we went to the standard of 10,000 in 1000 all of a sudden heparin drips became easy as pie.

passing thru · Apr 15, 2003

I don't have time right now....packing and shopping and going to the accountants office....maybe you should post it again in student nursing forum...maybe get a study group going...

CCURN · Apr 15, 2003

In answer to the first question, I dont think you have to use the weight, that is in there to throw you a bit I think. All she wants is the pump setting!!!!!

And yes 0.39 is correct,

altomga, ADN, BSN, MSN, DNP, RN, APRN · Apr 18, 2003

I did just throw the weight in as a "little extra". Although we do use weight based protocols to figure the dosages, we don't use them to figure up the cc/hr on the pump.

A trick they showed me when I started working was to just double the units/hr. If they want 1200unit/hr the pump will run at 24cc/hr. It works! Thank god, b/c I hate math:)

NICU_Nurse, BSN, RN · Apr 18, 2003

Ack! That weight thrown in there for good measure just took me back to my days in nursing school and I experienced a horrible flashback thanks to you!!!

Thanking God I got out alive,

Kristi

altomga, ADN, BSN, MSN, DNP, RN, APRN · Apr 20, 2003

Sorry Kristi2377!!

....YES it does have horrible flashbacks of school time doesn't it??

:):) LOL