CRRT Orders

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Kristen Hughes
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CRRT Orders

Hello!

We are an Epic hospital and currently require CRRT dialysate/replacement fluids to be ordered every 24 hours per institutional high alert policy. We have been running into problems getting orders placed incorrectly or orders expiring before providers have a chance to order or order for the flow/removal rates not matching with the orders for the actual dialysate and replacement fluid. I wanted to get some general sense of what other institutions are doing:

1. Do you require new orders q24h? If no, how often should these be ordered?
2. Do you require an order set for ordering CRRT fluids? If so and you are an Epic hospital, how are all these orders set up? (If anyone is willing to share their order sets that would be great!

Kristen Hughes, PharmD, BCPS, CPPS (she/her/hers)
Clinical Pharmacist, Medication Safety and Informatics
Division of Pharmaceutical Services
Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105
Phone: 901-864-7878
Email: kristen.hughes@stjude.org

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