So being an ER nurse of course we deal with critical patients. So yesterday we had a patient extremely critical, poor prognosis BP is like 40/10, we are maxed out on all pressors.
Pressors are running through the triple lumen. All 3 lumens.
My manager comes in and gives us some tips. He basically stacked three- 3 way ports together one for each pressor on a main line of normal saline and connected it to one of the triple lumens and a heplock to the other end, then connected each pressor to a port.
He said this is for added effect of the pressors and also to free up some lines.
Thank goodness because last patient I had to let each antibiotic wait one after the other because all 5 of my lines (triple lumen + 2 peripheral lines) were taken. I had one pressor on each line, sodium bicarb on another line, and antibiotics on the last line I had.
