Incompatible drips

PaSSiNGaS, MSN · Nov 5, 2014

Ok haha well this has been an amusing thread and proves that too many rns are just stool monkeys obeying others every command and not possessing the skills to critical think on their own. I will be going now, enjoy.

Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN · Nov 6, 2014

Alrighty...

Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN · Nov 6, 2014

OP, the PP's are correct about the different lumens. Even with PICCs, you have so much hemodilution at the tip that it's not an issue.

**NickiLaughs, ADN, BSN, RN** · Nov 10, 2014

As the others said regarding the different lumens have different locations where the medication is released in the blood stream.

Regarding passinggas, seriously? You work in OR, do you ever follow up with these patients after they leave? I feel bad for the nurses you drop them off to trying to reorganize lines in a safe manner.

And while you can run a pressor peripherally, i will run whatever i have to through anything in a code situation. It really isn't ideal, ESP when that vein clamps down enough to blow and your norepi goes subcutaneous instead.

TBWIRN · Nov 18, 2014

Put bicarb and calcium together and you'll look up compatibility the rest of your life!

Larry3373 · Nov 24, 2014

Ok haha well this has been an amusing thread and proves that too many rns are just stool monkeys obeying others every command and not possessing the skills to critical think on their own. I will be going now, enjoy.

This is an ad hominem attack and doesn't "prove" anything. Actually, it's unclear to me what you have been asserting here. Are you really saying that there are very few true drug incompatibilities, so we should therefore run multiple medications in the same line as long as we can't visualize precipitate? If this is your assertion, then it is up to you to prove that. I don't believe that is supported by any evidence, so why would I waste my time trying to defeat that unjustified assertion?