Preservative-free vitamin K neonatal injection

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Lara Ellinger
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Preservative-free vitamin K neonatal injection

Does your facility carry both preservative-free and preservative-containing vitamin K injection for neonates, and what is your rationale for what you carry? ​If your facility carries only preservative-containing neonatal vitamin K, and family refuses, what is the procedure for handling the situation? Does your facility have a protocol/procedure in place for accepting labeled, unaltered Vitamin K injection for single use that the family has brought in from an outpatient pharmacy?

Thank you!

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