mag sulfate

[obnursessco]

I work at a small rural hospital where we do mag very infrequently. I am wondering can you run mag and pit through the same IV? I seem to remember from when I worked at a large teaching hospital that we did that all the time. The mag would be piggybacked onto the mainline and the pit would be run directly in on the other y-site ext. I took care of a pt the other day who had 2 IV's in the same arm, one to run mag and the other pit, because the nurse who started her mag and induction insisted that mag and pit are not compatable. I could not find anywhere in a policy, drug book, or text book, where it said one way or the other. Let me know if anyone knows the answer. Thanks.

[Mississippi_RN]

I work at a small rural hospital where we do mag very infrequently. I am wondering can you run mag and pit through the same IV? I seem to remember from when I worked at a large teaching hospital that we did that all the time. The mag would be piggybacked onto the mainline and the pit would be run directly in on the other y-site ext. I took care of a pt the other day who had 2 IV's in the same arm, one to run mag and the other pit, because the nurse who started her mag and induction insisted that mag and pit are not compatable. I could not find anywhere in a policy, drug book, or text book, where it said one way or the other. Let me know if anyone knows the answer. Thanks.

You can put both through the same IV "site", however, where I work our Safety Standards require us to run them on seperate pumps.

[DEB52]

Yes you can run them both at the same time. We have been doing that for a long time. We always put our Pitocin at the port closes to the arm. :typing