Is anyone willing to share the epidural protocol for home care. I am specifcally looking to determine a length of time a patient should be a controlled setting with a intraspinal infusion prior to admission into homecare. Our policy currently states 24 hours, this seems reasonable due to subacute overdose, etc but I am unable to find any documentation to support this (the policy is a few years old). We have several physicians that are requesting they put the line in outpatient and send them home. I would like to hear what others are doing.
Thank you