Many of our physicians will order the house protocol based on the patients needs. Having said that 99% of the time the rate of infusion has been 42ml/hr for the lipids along with the TPN/PPN. so it comes to about 12 hours infusion time. Hope this helps.
Specializes in gen icu/ neuro icu/ trauma icu/hdu.
Have yet to see a "standard rate" of TPN administration as nutritional needs can vary dependent on disease state, weight temp etc. Also fat percentage (eg 10 % vs 20%) can be altered depending on comorbitities and serum triglyceride levels
our lipids come in 500c glass bottle, different %'s require different rates, but the constant with lipids for our protocol require the bottle to be changed every 24hrs and no fitlers.
Mcgyver
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Hey guys,I have some question,usually for the elderly how many hours do you infuse lipofundin-Intralipid 20%, 500 cc bottle?
Hope you can help me, tnx!