Albertson

At this facility they have us program each individual abx into the pump so I am hanging abx as a primary if the pt doesn’t have maintenance fluids ordered and then once the abx are complete…I.e. pump runs dry and says “air in line” because the bag has run dry we are then to hand flush the line with 2 (10)ml flushes of NS. This facility does not carry small flush bags as this is very expensive and it’s a surgical floor so every pt is getting abx frequently. I can not figure out how to re-prime the tubing with the same abx for the next round since primary tubing can be reused without getting huge amounts of air in the line and wasting med.

This is a great suggestion and if they have a maintenance fluid I absolutely will hang the abx as a secondary but if they don’t have any maintenance fluids ordered or the abx aren’t compatible with those fluids they have to run on a primary and this is where my issue comes in. Thank you for the response!

So the place I do clinicals at hangs abx on primary tubing. I can’t seem to manage re-hanging the same abx for the next set of abx on the same tubing without getting an insane amount of air in the line. It is also common practice when the abx are complete that the line is flushes with 20ml NS to ensure all abx are administered. So how do you properly reuse primary tubing without getting air in line or wasting medication? No one can seem to help me here.