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For those of you who work in the valley NICU's, I have a couple of questions.

1) Does anyone use statlocks on their PIV sites? If so, what do you think of them?

2) How often do you change your TPN/lipid tubing?

Any input would be appreciated, thanks!

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Ours is from the CDC. We have had 2 line infections in 2 years and they were both fem lines in big chronic kids.

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We change our TPN Q72H and Lipid and med tubing Q24H

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We change clear fluids tubing Q 96hrs

We change TPN/IL tubing Q 24hrs

We change med tubing Q72 hrs

TPN/IL gets hung on dayshift

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TPN/IL tubing change q24hrs, on afternoons

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Can you please direct me to where you found the evidence based research showing that TPN/lipids do not have to be changed every 24 hours?

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TPN/IL are changed every 24hrs. Clear liquids every 72hrs. There was only one hospital that I have been to that uses stat lock.I didnt like using them, I thought we were losing iv's just as much with the statlock and the point of using them was to make the iv last longer.

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I believe it is on the CDC website.

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PA/TPN q24

IL q24

full tubing setup q72

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