To infuse a unit of packed RBCs through a PICC within the max of
4 hours, you will need an electronic pump. The length of a PICC adds
so much resistance to the flow rate and without this pump, the blood
could exceed the 4 hours causing you to waste some of it. If a pump
can accommodate blood transfusion, the manufacturer will have a blood
set available that is compatible with their pump. For albumin, 25% is
very viscous so would need a pump to correctly infuse through a PICC.
5% albumin might infuse without it though. You can piggyback this as a
secondary fluid on most pumps so that it will go through the pump.
Just make sure you check on the compatibility of any meds admixed in
the primary fluid. Again the pump manufacturer would have instructions
on this. Lynn
At 12:06 PM -0500 11/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are all of you mandating that PICC lines have electronic infusion devices (EID) used with infusions? We currently use a gravity flow blood tubing - our policy states that all central line administrations must be done on a EID. Also, our Albumin tubing coming from the blood bank isn't pump tubing.....
How is everyone else doing this?....I know that there is tubing out there to accommodate EID with blood transfusions...how about Albumin?
Lorelle Wuerz BS, RN
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Lynn Hadaway, M.Ed., RNC, CRNI
Lynn Hadaway Associates, Inc.
126 Main Street, PO Box 10
Milner, GA 30257
http://www.hadawayassociates.com
office 770-358-7861
Lynn Hadaway Associates, Inc.
126 Main Street, PO Box 10
Milner, GA 30257
http://www.hadawayassociates.com
office 770-358-7861
