Wed Nov 24, 2004 Well I was figuring since I’m so closely tied to you guys and my IV and it’s going to be a few weeks(4 to 6) to talk about this stuff might be in order.
Yesterday seemed to be a good one, nurse came to visit and gave me an A+ for doing the job:
a. changing the tubing
b. stabbing the medication pouch with the tubing
c. feeding the tubing via the IV pump (regulated flow and dosage)
d. getting air bubbles out of tubing (can kill)
e. sterilizing connections
f. care of portal in arm that IV make transfer through.
(getting an A+ doesn’t make you less nervous )
Well tonight I scared the hell out of myself with the alarm going off early that the drip was done!!!! turns out that I got the flow rate turned around do it dropped 2x faster than it should have. reason for this confusion is that the dosage for one is 100/100 and the other is 100/200, and I programmed 200/100 -
Called the nurse and got the low-down - I’m OK but “don’t do that again”.
I’m on my last med drip of the night so in about an hour I can go to bed.
this morning I had a bad tube that kept giving me an air in tube error message - had to replace that in total. this stuff is enough to drive you nuts once in awhile.