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Diane C Lauer
Does new central line = new tubing?
Can anyone help me find a reference that states IV tubing should be changed prior to attaching to a newly placed central line.  I can't find a referance in INS P and P.  Is this standard practice?
lynncrni
A primary continuous and any

A primary continuous and any secondary sets should be changed when a new CVC is inserted. The INS standards of practice addresses this but it does leave room for interpretation. See page S48 of the standards on the set change coinciding with the peripheral catheter change. This does not address a CVC, but it only makes sense to me that a new CVC should not be in contact with any IV tubing that is questionable in it sterility or integrity. 

Lynn Hadaway, M.Ed., RN, BC, CRNI

www.hadawayassociates.com

Lynn Hadaway, M.Ed., RN, NPD-BC, CRNI

Lynn Hadaway Associates, Inc.

PO Box 10

Milner, GA 30257

Website http://www.hadawayassociates.com

Office Phone 770-358-7861

Gwen Irwin
We have discussed this and

We have discussed this and don't find a lot of research, but from the point of view of making sense, it definitely.

The peripheral IV sites are not inserted using sterile technique.  All of the CVCs are inserted using sterile technique.  Nurses have been responsive to this and understand that they don't want to take a contaminated tubing to the sterile placed CVC.  Of course, we have coached them for years on this!

Gwen Irwin

Austin, Texas

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