draw medication out of a flacon

I am thinking the correct name is two words and starts with "L" and ends with "K". am I to senior to answer?
 
Wouldn't the "L"eur loc"K" be the current hooky uppy thing we use to attach syringes? *** opposed to the old school needle injection ports on the drip sets?

Depending on what we get from the hospital pharmacy (were spoiled here) we'll get prefilled or vials OR carpujects. Recently got Lasix 100 mg in a prefilled, which I thought was neat. Been getting Valium in vials sealed with foil sealed in a plastic bag.
I ALWAYS use a needle to draw my narcs and benzos out of the carpujects, can never find the plunger when you need it so I stopped looking.
 
SoCal wins. I guess Tim did but he's too senior :p

Luer Lock would be the correct name.
 
bigbaldguy said:
Paramedics can. Lower levels of EMS providers are limited to auto injectors.

You are correct though that most services that I've seen do not use an actual needle to inject medication into an IV line old school. Generally the IV lines here have ports that we can just attach the syringe to without using a needle. Needles are still used to draw the medication up.
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Not true in all areas. Our basics here can draw up epi 1:1000 (granted, into a 0.3ml syringe) and Narcan, and administer both. EMT-I/AEMT/whatever it's called this week can usually draw up a range of different meds.
 
Most medicines here come in glass ampoules which must be drawn up with a drawing up needle, or in single use vials which you can use a regular sharp 23 or 25 gu needle.

There are a few different ones like salbutamol, atropine and water for injection which come in plastic ampoules that come in a plastic ampoule you snap the top off of. Ceftriaxone, glucagon and vecuronium powder come in a single use vial you must mix with water before giving it and methoxyflurane needs the vial inserted into the green thing, sorry I don't know what it's called.

While medicines can technically be drawn up by anybody it is now recommended the person giving it be the person who draws it up and that flushes of sodiumchloride be drawn into a different sized syringe than medicines.
 
Milla3P said:
I wish I had the Green Whistle... Anybody in the US ever use it?
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I wish. And sorry Milla, I guess you technically win the 10 points since you spelled it out.


Sorry Socal :P

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bigbaldguy said:
Paramedics can. Lower levels of EMS providers are limited to auto injectors.

You are correct though that most services that I've seen do not use an actual needle to inject medication into an IV line old school. Generally the IV lines here have ports that we can just attach the syringe to without using a needle. Needles are still used to draw the medication up.
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I can draw up and give Naloxone IV or IN, of course no one around here carries it anything but a prefill, but it is still allowed for EMTs.
 
NVRob said:
I wish. And sorry Milla, I guess you technically win the 10 points since you spelled it out.


Sorry Socal :P

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I didn't want to give away the answer, I wasn't sure if I am senior enough to answer... seeing as I have been here longer than you :cool: I am going to have to steal one of milla's points.
 
You can have 2.

I thought the question was about the name for the old rubber needle ports on drip sets. Those things terrify me. Hate using them in a moving truck.
 
Youtube is your friend.
 
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