Terbutaline protocol

[OBERrural]

For some reason our hospital does not have a terbutaline protocol. I've been trying to research online, but all I come up with is the warning not to use it over 48-72 hours. So I'm curious, what is your hospitals's protocol?

[klone, MSN, RN]

For all of you whose hospitals no longer use Terb...do you mean that you no longer use it in the occasional subq to stop contractions or did you stop using it in other forms like on pumps/iv ?

We stopped using it altogether for PTL. Like I said above, we will still very occasionally use it if the mother has tachysystole which is causing severe hypoxia in the fetus. We'll give one shot to slow contractions while we're also heading to the OR.