{"id":1323,"date":"2022-11-27T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aquabiliti.com\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2023-04-09T11:51:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T11:51:57","slug":"when-to-flush-with-20ml","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aquabiliti.com\/when-to-flush-with-20ml\/","title":{"rendered":"When to Flush with 20mL?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a number of situations where the use of a 20mL flush syringe is recommended<\/h4>\n<\/div>
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    After a blood draw from an indwelling intravenous catheter<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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    Post infusion of viscous solutions like TPN (total parenteral nutrition), blood products or contrast media<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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    As a chaser for emergency Resuscitation drugs such as adenosine, epinephrine, atropine, magnesium sulfate, sodium bicarbonate, dopamine, amiodarone, lidocaine, and procainamide<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ul>

    From the<\/strong> 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care <\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

    ‘If a resuscitation drug is administered by a peripheral venous route, it should be administered by bolus injection and followed with a 20-mL bolus of IV fluid (which in almost all cases would be normal saline) to facilitate the drug flow from the extremity into the central circulation’<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"There are a number of situations where the use of a 20mL flush syringe is recommended","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquabiliti.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquabiliti.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquabiliti.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquabiliti.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquabiliti.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aquabiliti.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquabiliti.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquabiliti.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquabiliti.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquabiliti.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}