I agree. Has anyone tried to get it off formulary in there institution and how
successful were you.
Margaret
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Raye Dillon
Sent: Fri 11/4/2005 10:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [vascular] Phenergan protocol
with all the good alternatives out there why are we still using this
drug. and dont tell me cost please
>>> "Nicastro, Margaret" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/2/2005 11:34:38 PM
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A few years ago we were having numerous problems with our ER giving
phenergan IV push sometimes via a saline lock and sometimes via the
lowest port of the IV fluids but stopping the fluids while
administering the phenergan. Needless to say we had a number of
patients complaining of pain, infiltrations occuring. I would address
this with our med safety committee and our P & T committee. I finally
made some headway when a patient in the ER who also was a hospital
employee, a nurse and also a diabetic had a phenergan infiltrate. I did
not like the looks of her hand and called her primary care physician and
recommended she be referred to a plastic surgeon. She had an appt with
the plastic surgeon who followed her weekly for quite some time. He
felt she might need plastic surgery but she opted to wait it out and
continued with his treatment of vaseline gauze to the site and an
acewrap. After over a year you can hardly see where the infiltrate was.
She knows it was there !
and sometimes is embarrassed to show her hand. After this incident
which I took back to the med safety committee and P & T with pictures of
her hand we changed our policy to read Phenergan must be diluted in a
syringe with 10 ml NSS and given slow IV Push. This has cut down on our
infiltrates and pain issues.
Margaret M Nicastro, CRNI, OCN
Coorordinator IV Therapy/Oncology
Gettysburg Hospital
147 Gettys Street
Gettysburg, PA 17325
Phone: 717-337-4312
Fax: 717-337-4485
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Lynn Hadaway
Sent: Wed 11/2/2005 4:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: John Cole
Subject: Re: [vascular] Phenergan protocol
Gahart's Intravenous Medication handbook calls for promethazine to be
administered thru the injection port of a free flowing infusion. Lynn
At 3:34 PM -0500 11/2/05, Beverly Moore wrote:
Does anyone out there have a protocol or policy requiring that
Phenergan be given sidearm on compatible fluid? Would you be willing to
share? We are thinking about implementing this.
Beverly Moore, RN, BSN, OCN
IV Therapy
Danville Regional Medical Center
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