Primary and secondary fluids

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Can someone please clarify what fluids fall under each category?

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Specializes in Pain, critical care, administration, med.

My guess would be

Primary- maintainance IVs such as NS, D5 NS, etc

Secondary would be IV antibiotics, etc.

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Specializes in Med/surg, Onc.

99% of the time primary fluids/lines are the maintenance and secondary is an antibiotic or supplement etc.

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