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PICU Question!

Hello PICU peeps!

Here goes my first post on AN! When you have patients on high doses of pressors, do you have a secondary (I.e. back-up) pumps already programmed and ready to go in case of pump failure/issues with the primary pump?

Thoughts?

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    Nope. We don't have enough pumps for the drips we are already running without having all our vasoactives on back-up pumps. We do try to have a spare pump to allow for double-pumping when it's time to change out syringes and/or tubing though.

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    Nope not here either. If I have a kid on high pressors on line change day I will hunt down a transport pole and enough pumps for a completely identical set-up to what they have running and get everything strung and running for a few hours for a quick and easy line change

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    Nope not here either. If I have a kid on high pressors on line change day I will hunt down a transport pole and enough pumps for a completely identical set-up to what they have running and get everything strung and running for a few hours for a quick and easy line change

    We refer to this as 'marinating' the fluids!

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    The reason I posed this question...... At shift change the other day - a kid was on epi (high dose) and the pump mysteriously malfunctioned. By the time someone ran into the room, pressures were already in the toilet! It was a joyous shift change... Just led me to wondering how other units worked :)

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    Nope... We are in the same boat, hardly enough pumps to go around as it is.

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    We are lucky in NICU and PICU to have enough oumps, CSR always claims to be out... Other floors hoard them and hide the pump finders.

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