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K-containing IVFs

Susan Lee's picture

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I'd like to see how common it is for hospitals to allow floor-stocking of K-containing IVFs?
Should MSC be allowed to manage these?
Should Pharmacy be handling K-containing solutions?
Do you some units to floor-stock K-containing IVFs, but not others?

thanks!
Susan

POC<40 acronym

Dylan Fotenopulos's picture

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This was included in a recent ADE presentation I saw, but it wasn't explained.

Anyone know what this stands for?

It's not point-of-care
I don't think it's provision-of-care.

I am fairly new to med safety, so if this a a common acronym, I just haven't seen it.

Thanks

Policy or SOP regarding implanted medication pumps

Rebecca R. Prevost's picture

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We are interested in whether other facilities have a policy or SOP for implanted medication pumps, such as those manufactured by Medtronic, used for morphine, baclofen, or ziconotide. For instance, how do you handle refills while patients are hospitalized? Do you require a pain management consult? Do you allow a nurse from an outside agency to enter the hospital to refill? Does pharmacy dispense the medication to be refilled? Thank you, Rebecca

refrigerated tube feed storage

Jeffrey Schnoor's picture

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Hello,

I am wondering how refrigerated tube feeds are being stored on your nursing units?

Do you allow storage of refrigerated tube feeds with medications?

Do you store store refrigerated tube feeds in a food refrigerator with other patient food. If so, are your food refrigerators medical grade?

Thanks! ---Jeff

Batch compounding

Cristiane Rocha Cunha's picture

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I am trying to understand the differences in batch compounding procedures among facilities and was wondering if you guys could share some information with me.
Do you guys batch any of the drugs below in house to be administered in a syringe pump? If so, what is the BUD that you give to the batch and would you do testing of samples for each batch prepared?

Cisatracurium(Nimbex)
Remifentanil
Methadone
Fentanyl

Thank you in advance

Cris

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