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Category Archives: Medication Related

Sharps and needlesticks

I’ve been fortunate enough to make it this far in my career without having a needlestick injury.
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Correction, as a student nurse I discovered that 23g needles for intramuscular injections have caps that are very tight sometimes! So (pre-mastering of technique) I pulled from the end of the cap until it flung off, and [...]

Inotropes and peripheral lines

I’d be interested to hear of other people’s experience on this subject.  Do people run inotropes like noradrenaline (norepinephrine) through peripheral lines at all?

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Best practice suggests use of a central line to avoid peripheral ischaemia, though I’m aware of several situations recently where peripheral lines were used for inotropes - one argument I’ve seen [...]