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What they said. Just use the 5 or 10 ml syringe, no harm in flushing with a little extra saline. :). And, it just takes practice. Your post took me back a few years.... I remember the first few times I would get my 10 ml syringe ready to flush when I was in clinical back in school, I would squirt the thing and it would shoot all over the place from the pressure lol. You just get better at things as you do them more :).
Yup, pull back to break the seal - learned that the hard way, but it did make my preceptor AND the patient laugh...
I only use the 10s with central lines, they don't stock as many in the Pyxis and I am too lazy to make my own...
HalfMarathoner - we use J Loops so 3s are plenty to clear them. What kind of extension are you talking about?
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Hi All!
This is a silly question but I can't seem to figure it out....
At my clinical site, we flush peripheral IVs with prefilled 3 mL NS syringes
Now, I have used 5 mL and 10 mL when appropriate in other instances and never had this problem but for some reason with the 3 mL everytime I try to push the air bubble out, I push about half the NS out of the syringe! It happens every time no matter how gentle or slow I try to push! I asked my instructor if there's a little trick to this and she said it just takes practice. She laughs at me every time I do it. lol It's not a big deal but I'd like to know how to do it without wasting 1.5 mL of NS every time!
Any tips/tricks?