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NICU 3-mL Doses - Syringe Size and Pump Flow Rate Limitation

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Does anyone have any best practices around ensuring 3-mL syringes are used to prepare 3-mL NICU doses?

We’ve had incidents of 3-mL doses dispensed in 5-mL syringes. The ordered rate was less than 0.1 mL/hr. Because the Alaris syringe pump cannot deliver a flow rate lower than 0.1 mL/hr from a 5-mL syringe, the doses had to be sent back to be prepared a second time in 3-mL syringes.

We are thinking about including syringes as components to be scanned when Dispense Prepping NICU mixtures in Epic but are running into some workflow challenges with that.

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