Priming tubing in Rx for central line TPNs to prevent CLABSI

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Fri, 10/16/2020 - 10:22
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Chad Simpson
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Priming tubing in Rx for central line TPNs to prevent CLABSI

Do any of you currently prime the TPN tubing for your central line patients in an effort to prevent CLABSI?

Our NICU is asking if we could do this on our neonatal TPNs.

We prime the tubing for our chemotherapy, but nothing else currently.

Wondering if any of you have experience in your facilities priming TPN tubing?

In my opinion, if we start this for NICU, we should probably do it for pedi and adult patients as well.

Thoughts?

Thanks -
Chad

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