you can gravity fluids without a pump but the original question was on blood. Why would anyone in this day and age want to give blood without a pump? Time in a chair is money in outpatient and blood has to be delivered in four hous. It is not cost feasible to deliver blood via a PICC without a pump. Nor is it the best case for the patient Kathy
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mazza, Kathleen Sent: Thu 11/10/2005 7:35 AM To: Kokotis, Kathy; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: PICC infusions Honestly, we have pretty good results using gravity for our home care patients. Most of the PICCs are 4Fr. and our infusion volumes are generally pretty small (100cc over 30 minutes for many IVAB, 250cc/hr for Vanco). Occasionally we will need to place a pump in a patient's home, but we don't do it as a general rule. Of course, any medication that requires very specific infusion rates gets a pump - but we don't base that on the type of access. I'll be curious to hear what others' experiences are with this. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kokotis, Kathy Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: PICC infusions Gravity flow does not work with PICC lines at all. Law of physics length and time kathy ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 11/9/2005 10:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail/fax and its attachments may contain PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION and/or PROTECTED PATIENT HEALTH INFORMATION intended solely for the use of Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers of New York (SVCMC) and the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution, printing, or copying of this e-mail message and/or any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete this e-mail [shred the document] and any attachments.
