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Is anyone familiar with the "filtered needle" law ??? Im not sure if it varies by state, or if its a national thing.
Is anyone familiar with the "filtered needle" law ??? Im not sure if it varies by state, or if its a national thing.
Wasn't aware there was a law about it...
Hopefully if medical professionals are taught the proper indications for the use of a filtered needle, there shouldn't be a need for a law.
It is taught that a filtered needle should be used for injecting amiodorone because the drug has a tendency to crystallize in the syringe or IV line.
There are two components to education: being taught and learning.I know that can happen with some meds, but was never taught that amio was one of them
Did your instructors assign you to independently research the medications you were studying? Even if they did not, did you do so on your own, in order to achieve better understanding of the dangerous substances you will be injecting into living human beings? Even the most rudimentary search of any drug handbook or the Google immediately reveals the recommendation for filtering when administering amiodarone. It would be literally impossible to miss. If your instructors missed it, they fail. If you missed it, you fail. And so do your patients.
So, as a Rx Tech, I have a bit of insight thats pretty straight forward.
The purpose of the filter needle is to filter glass out of ampuoles. Easiest way to put it into a bolus it is to pull it up with a normal needle, then replace the needle with a filter needle and push it into the bag. if your giving it IVP (push), you should start with the filter needle and then switch to a normal needle.
but ampuoles always always = filter needles. just the order changes