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1. Worried about giving wrong saline!

   nurselalou replied to nurselalou's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you!!

2. Worried about giving wrong saline!

   nurselalou replied to nurselalou's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you for the reply. I feel like I wasn't clear enough. I understand the solution didn't put her into shock, I'm worried that I dropped her blood pressure. It was 118/70ish and then dropped to 86/54ish. Dr. thought AFTER the b/p dropped that it w...

3. Worried about giving wrong saline!

   nurselalou replied to nurselalou's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for all the replies... I realized the .45% didn't put her into septic shock but after her b/p dropped (prior to any blood cultures which I don't know the results of) Dr. thought she was in septic shock ( and maybe she was because her pressure ...

4. Worried about giving wrong saline!

   nurselalou posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm a new nurse and I had a pt. today that I started giving .45% saline instead of 9%. She went into what we thought was septic shock and I'm freaking out that I had something to do with it. It was only hung for a few minutes before I realized and to...