I draw it up using a 3 ml syringe, then transfer that to a 10 ml saline flush syringe. Flushing before and after if it's not given through a running IV, of course.
My Dilaudid comes in a Carpuject syringe. Waste with your witness, remove the pre-installed needle and then access the carpuject syringe with the 10 ml syringe and draw it up.
Wait I should add my facility uses PICCs that are approved for smaller barrel syringes. I wasn't thinking that this might not be the case for every facility. Never mind answered my own question.
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I used to draw up the small amount of medicine and transfer it to a prefilled 10mL normal saline flushing syringe. If there are no contraindications to mixing the medication with normal saline, this is one way you can give small amounts of medications via PICC.
Hockeynursing
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Hi there,
im wondering how everyone else draws up Meds for PICCs that are in small doses?
for example, a patient had ordered 0.5 mg dilaudid Q 4 hours PRN IV.
its is available as 2 mg/ ml
and because it's PICC, needs to be on 10 cc syringe.