I Need A Tubex!!!

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When I first started nursing (3years ago) the pharmacy at my hospital stocked Tubex injectors. Not the old metal kind, but a new light blue plastic one with a twist grip on it... for use with needleless tubex med syringes. If you use one, you know what I'm talking about. My pharmacy has stopped stocking them and gone to the Carpuject injectors, which I HATE! I stocked up on a few of them at first but I'm down to only one which I guard with my life. I'm so afraid its going to break or get lost and then what??? Carpuject... ugghh. Anyone know where I can get some of these doodads?? I can't find anywhere online that sells them through my search engine and I've checked my local scrub shops and medical supply places with no luck.....

I love my little Tubex!

Sue

Did you find any "loose" blue tubex injectors? I too would "kill" for another. I like jlmb214 love those things.

Thanks for the web address for the metal ones, but I true to the blue.

Mine of believe it or not of 15 years just broke. I never let it out of my site in a busy ED

Dennis

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try e-bay.

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I totally understand the love of the blue Tubex. When I first started on med-surg, my preceptor got me hooked on it. She gave me one which I used for the first time and immediately disposed of in the sharps container. ARGH, I could've kicked myself! Fortunately she had another to spare and I have guarded that thing with my life for about a year now. :nuke:

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A blue tubex just sold on ebay for $26.00. There is a second one up!

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you can also use the plunger from a insulin syringe..... Just pull it out of the insulin syringe, pop the carpujet and then you can push out the air and infuse into an IV line.... :)

I never thought of doing that. You could also draw the med out into a syringe of your choice right thru the rubber stopper.

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$15! For a tubex! Heck! I know I have some of these around my house somewhere! I ought to list it on eBay!!

Personally, I like the carpujects. I have one in my pocket at all times and use it regularly. Everyone else on my unit takes a needle and a syringe and withdraws the med from the tube of morphine/demerol/dilaudid..such a waste to me!

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nurse-lou4146647 [$15! For a tubex! Heck! I know I have some of these around my house somewhere! I ought to list it on eBay!! Personally, I like the carpujects. I have one in my pocket at all times and use it regularly. Everyone else on my unit takes a needle and a syringe and withdraws the med from the tube of morphine/demerol/dilaudid..such a waste to me!]

YAY!! Send some to our nurse in need here.

That style, the blue Tubex, is no longer made, so for the RNs who cherish them and aren't used to or don't like carpujects, they are a hot item. Guess that's why the price can be so outlandish.

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I actually have one of the old metal ones (which I used to use,guess I'm an old timer! and yes I loved using it! :loveya:

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So I have a questions. I used he carpuject and had my nurse manager tell me not to use it. She said I should always dilute the meds in ns, especially narcs since they are so irritating to the veins. I said, why do they make these then? She said, "It's better to dilute them." Thoughts? (The only thing we get in those types of vials are narcs.)

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NurseNinaFla;4146863 [i actually have one of the old metal ones (which I used to use,guess I'm an old timer! and yes I loved using it!]

When I was practicing, preferred the 'old fashioned' metal ones too!!!

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So I have a questions. I used he carpuject and had my nurse manager tell me not to use it. She said I should always dilute the meds in ns, especially narcs since they are so irritating to the veins. I said, why do they make these then? She said, "It's better to dilute them." Thoughts? (The only thing we get in those types of vials are narcs.)

I've pushed narcs before without diluting them. Never have been told not to. I dilute ativan before giving it IVP. Usually though they are being given through a running IV line so they're being diluted by the IV solution.

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