iv interventions

Jstar,

I believe that you should throw away the bottle with the broken glass, and start anew. One should not only be concerned with the glass particulates, but also the contamination of the solution secondary to the breakage.

Can anyone tell me the nursing intervention if iv fluid being administered from a glass bottle had broken pieces of glass in it?

How did the glass get in there? I would be concerned with that...Is it a manufacturer default? Or cracks in the glass..........You should always check your solutions prior to hanging it anyways, so hopefully it was never administered to begin with.........

This is why you should always have a filter on your tubing...Filters out that kind of stuff.........

Can anyone tell me the nursing intervention if iv fluid being administered from a glass bottle had broken pieces of glass in it?

You should discard it away and start over. Don't throw it away but contact pharmacy so they can follow up with manufacturer. Not only are the particles of glass a concern but the risk of contamination to solution.

Red label it and return to pharmacy..all the other glass bottles need to be checked by them as well for dammage/contamination.

Another point to remember (which may seem obvious to some, not to others) is that you have to replace ALL of the lines and/or tubing.

The same thing applies pretty much to any contamination i.e. particulate matter precipitated out in the fluid, etc.

Again - may be obvious to some - but sometimes we need to be crystal clear about everything!