For years we have not refrigerated routinely vials of pit that we use in delivery or birthing rooms because they get used up so quickly. At various times we have refrigerated them if they were in packs until we used them or restocked rooms..There has never been a problem as far as I know.
Recently had some premixed pit in saline that is in our pxyis...It does not seem to work as well at all to the point where we have changed the bag and tubing and put our own pit in fresh IVs only to find that works much better. Recent conferences ( Murray) suggest that those premixed pit bags be refrigerated vs being in the pxyis. We can't get pharmacists to agree. Wondering what various policies are amongst all you people out there. Please feel free to share.
