What has your organization implemented to eliminate the use of prefilled saline flushes to dilute or reconstitute medications.
ISMP newsletter update stated........
"Do NOT dilute or reconstitute IV push medications by drawing up the
contents into a commercially available, prefilled flush syringe of
0.9% sodium chloride".
.... regulated by the US Food and
Drug Administration as devices, not as medications. These devices have been approved for the flushing of vascular access devices, but have NOT been approved for the reconstitution, dilution, and/or subsequent administration of IV push medications. Such use would be
considered “off label”.
Thank you
Marilyn Hargett MSN, RN