casper82

casper82 has 26 years experience and specializes in level 2 nursery.

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1. Umbilical Tox Screen

   casper82 replied to MegNeoNurse's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   Just returned from a conference where Douglas Lewis of US Drug Testing lab said umbilical testing will be here soon. They have already started doing some testing back east. The 5 drug panels were...

2. policy for flushing INT's

   casper82 replied to casper82's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   That is why I want to know what others are doing. We are a smaller unit and our nursery CQI is looking into this issue, We transport a lot of infants to Denver and they still use Heparin to flush but...

3. policy for flushing INT's

   casper82 posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

   I was just wondering how other hospitals flush their newborn INT's. We use .5 ml normal saline and .5 ml heparin(10 units/per ml) every 4 hours. I have heard that some places are just flushing with...