jrmarr

yes, the patient was kind of puny so that was actually what I wanted to know...could the vein be close enough to an artery to be pulsing with it...I don't think the blood was very bright either...more darkish.....and as I said earlier...this fellow has very few options for lines left.

There was no charge nurse to call I was the only nurse on duty....that is how we work there as we are a very small facility....when I said it pulsed up the line what I meant was that it pulsed backwards but did not go past the j loop on the tubing...not actually past that....it just stayed at that level and pulsed, went no further and flushed back very easily. I did run the abt because he needed it and I was unsure that the nurse coming on would be able to start the IV at all. I am home now and can't stop thinking about it.

Hello, I had something happen today that is bothering me....I was starting an IV on an elderly gentalman....this man had very bad veins and not many choice places left to start an IV due to several infiltrations. Any way I finally found a place one the interior forearm. The thing that bothers me is that once I got the flash and hooked up the tubing I notice that the blood was pulsing up the lines....it was actually pulsing like an artery. What are the chances that I inserted the line into an arterty...I was aiming at blue. After I flushed it it immediately pulsed back into the lines. Secondly what happens if antibiotics are run there if it is in an artery?