There are places where if an IV bag is "open" but not used that bag is dated. This is the normal practice at some institutions. I expect there will be changes to how open, unwrapped IV bags are viewed in the near future.
Maybe the next psycho, killer anesthesiologist will inject through the wrapper itself, but this guy injected directly into the IV bag.
He injected through the outer wrapper and into the rubber stopper… thus depositing drugs into the iv fluids. On closer inspection, there were tiny poke holes visible through the outer wrapper. These were not unwrapped bags.
My cat was having kidney stones and I gave subQ fluids to flush the kidneys. Worked amazingly 👍
Yes, those 50 cent bags of saline and zofran vials are definitely the reason for $2k/month premiums.
...And JAHCO requiring we use one syringe for each and every medication we administer is simply wasteful and harmful to the environment. Same goes with 2 Lpm flow rates for sevo. I think they can afford to give me a bag of saline and an IV set so I don't have to take my cat to the vet.
And yet finance douchebags can engage in insider trading, nurses can host botox & wine parties, and marijuana is legalized in much of the country. It seem outright stupid that these little things with doctors end in suspicion and termination.
www.newsbreak.com
Wow, that video is pretty damning.Dallas anesthesiologist Dr. Raynaldo Ortiz Jr. to remain in custody until trial
A federal judge has denied a request from Dallas anesthesiologist Dr. Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr. for his release while he awaits trial on charges of tampering with IV bags.
Being held until trial. Probable flight risk. Also shows good video in the link of the questionable action
No matter how cynical people want to be, this correct. They jumped on us at our place because people were taking home AA batteries and Band-Aids.
He went thru bag to stopper. Maybe he used a frigging small needle. In any case, before all this, who really thoroughly inspected bags before using them? I know I didn’t. Never occurred to me till now that they could be tampered with.The wrapper is pretty thick, it is not easy poking a hole there without seeing it and if they do the needle has to go through the bag which will cause the bag to spring a leak in which case when you unwrap it there will be the tell tale sign of tampering... wetness upon ripping the wrapper. In order to not get fluid, you would have to somehow get your needle into the stopper where you inject medicine into the bag and that stopper is covered with a rip-away thingy which you can really only rip away by unwrapping the bag. It is not easy tampering with iv bags, unless you do what most preops do which is have a tech unwrap 60 bags the night before to save the lazy day of surgery nurses the trouble of unwrapping the iv bags. This practice(poor) gives the dr death types full opportunity to tamper with Iv fluid. This is really a basic safety thing. I am not saying anything new here.
I applied for privileges at a hospital then that group lost the contract months later. I never did a single anesthetic there. I’m wondering how much of a hassle this is going to be in the future
Do people really jump on threads and not even read the first damn post? Like really? It’s like opening a book to page 97 and it not making sense.
Where did you come from? Welcome moral police! We have been missing you. We have been behaving so badly. We were really in need of your services. Help us!!!
Because you clearly can't read or comprehend the English language. Would you like me to help you? Because English is my third language and I used to tutor the subject in Junior High.
TFA said:
Yes
Yeah, agreed.
I can’t seem to get anyone to keep me as a patient. The last few ended up in the hospital. I have a tendency to punch them in the face when they tell me I have anger issues.
Yes, you can very easily. I buy IV tubing and needles for my cat since the vet supplies cost about 10x as much (depending on where/when you can find/buy it). I buy it through my LLC and pay myself back. I use an Rx from the vet for the fluids and get those at Sam's Club or Costco. My cat is on Plasma-Lyte right now for renal disease. The tuxedo, Chaucer, is getting fluids. His sister just has bad IBD vs gut lymphoma.
jhaco should be destroyed
is cat supply same as human supply? or are they different standards
Sometimes. Probably.
It's exactly the same. The stuff my mom was buying from chewy was Baxter. (The vet tech seemed to think vet standards are higher, I looked at the packaging, it's the same.)
