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Tegaderm, 1/2inch silk tape. Maybe a little gauze if the hub is rubbing weird. I'll take the whole thing down and re-dress if I see it wrapped in that awful one inch plastic tape. Hard to see under it, saw a kid with an awful infiltrate who nearly lost his foot partially due to that tape.
Just a general question about what everyone's ways of securing IV's are. We are looking to change our practice but would like to see pros cons from everyone. What do you use?? Stat Lock, SorbaView, tape, other??
We were discussing this topic at work yesterday. The PICU uses Stat Lock and we use tegaderm and silk tape. We are going to push the idea of trialing the stat lock.
I'm a ER travel nurse and I've seen many, many ways of securing IV's and my personal favorite is tegaderm and one piece of tape, about 1/2 inch over the edges of the tegaderm to help keep things secure, makes for easy removal and it's less painful for patients. My second favorite way is the type with foam edges and a clear center, look like an egg shape around the clear portion and a straight edge on the top end of the egg; but many hospitals don't use them for some reason, many EMS do and I'll grab some from them when I can because I think they're great.
If it's a little one that might try to pull it out, I'll put it in their foot and wrap it with coban.
Less is more.
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Just a general question about what everyone's ways of securing IV's are. We are looking to change our practice but would like to see pros cons from everyone. What do you use?? Stat Lock, SorbaView, tape, other??