Our current IV KCl policy states we can run KCl at 20 meq/hr on cardiac monitored patients with PERIPHERAL lines. There have been numerous error reports of RNs using two different peripheral sites to administer two different bags of 10 meg/100mL on cardiac monitors at the same time, which technically meets the max of 20 meq/hr. I think there is a lot of confusion on if this is appropriate or not. Does anyone spell this out in their policy if this is appropriate? Thanks in advance!

Hello everybody

Our pharmacy wants to provide potassium chloride solutions in ready-to-use infusion bags. They proposed a concentraton of KCl 20 mmol/500 ml (= 0.04 mmol/ml).
But we received feedback that with this concentration patients will receive too much fluids.
What kind of ready-to-use KCl are you using?

Many thanks
Kristina