Zofran IV

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Hi all,

I'm not a nurse but a concerned patient with a quick question about Zofran. I'm a 20 year old female. I was in the ER for about 12 hours today after a scare with a pulmonary embolism (I don't have one, yay!) but I also had diarrhea once before I went to the ER around 11:30 PM Wednesday. I threw up during my blood draw at about 1:00 AM Thursday. I was awake for most of the night and nausea set in about 4 AM or 5 AM Thursday morning. I'd had an IV for fluids somewhere in there, and sometime between 8 and 10 (kind of a mixed up mess in my head) the nurse gave me an IV injection of Zofran. I'm pretty sure she flushed it twice and it burnt a little bit going in but not anything awful. I made the mistake of reading about Zofran online and all of the issues it can cause with prolonged QT intervals, which I have a weird phobia of having (my most recent EKG the interval was 362 ms). Anyways, I don't know how much the IV injection was because I really wasn't paying that much attention. Anywhere between 7 and 9 hours has passed since the injection. I was moved to a room where they had a heart monitor on for about half an hour (just to free up bed space in the ER) and maybe 30 minutes after that they released me.

I don't really know anything about Zofran. I have not been having any adverse symptoms (my heart rate gets going really fast when I get out of bed but I'm still feeling kinda cruddy (think it may have been the flu?) and have occasional bouts of very little diarrhea. However I haven't eaten anything or slept much, just trying to stay hydrated. Are prolonged QT intervals something I should worry about after just this one and only IV dose? I didn't experience any adverse reactions in the hospital either, I actually fell asleep for a few hours. I know that no one would've given it to me if they were worried about it, but I am such a worrier about that kind of stuff. I also had another EKG done probably 4 hours before the Zofran dose. Thanks so much!

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Specializes in PICU, Sedation/Radiology, PACU.

I'm sorry that you're not feeling well. Unfortunately, we cannot give medical advice here and these are questions that you need to bring to your primary physician or the ER doctor that treated you. Feel better.

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Yes, so sorry that you are feeling poorly.

We cannot give you medical advice per the Terms of Service. You need to pose your questions/concerns to your healthcare provider.

Hope you feel better soon.

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