I have found our PICC lines
to work on gravity,however, not as fast as our Anesthesia and OR staff would
like.
I even spoke with the
Clinical resource Nurse from Bard. Each catheter does flow on gravity ,
however, the rate of gravity infusion is different for each catheter; just
like you said the length and size of catheter. The Bard Vascular
Identification poster has all the different types of catheters with the gravity
flow rate for each one on the bottom of the poster.
Our policy does require
any infusion on a central line to be administered using an infusion pump for
adequate fluid control.
Gina War R.N., C.P.A.N.
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Sent: Wed 11/9/2005 1:53 PM
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Subject: RE: PICC infusions
Gravity flow does not work with PICC lines at all. Law of
physics length and
time
kathy
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Sent:
Wed 11/9/2005 10:06 AM
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Subject: PICC
infusions
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
