Hi,
Does anyone have a policy or information related to intraosseous insertion, care and maintanence they would be willing to share? Our Pediatric ED is interested in inserting IOs and other staff will need to know how to care for them once they are placed. The product we will probably use will be the EZ IO.
Thanks for the help and information in advance.
Hannah
This week a patient arrived in ICU with an IO access--Of course the IV team was contacted--While a couple of us had seen a demonstration at the AVA conference and had even handled the drill mechanism we still had to call an ED nurse to show the staff how to properly remove the access--We definitely need to construct a P&P so I will be looking at this space for examples to mirror
Robbin George RN VA-BC
Hello,
I thought this was very interesting when I went to the conference. So I gathered info to present to my hospital. We place PICCs on adults only and provide 24/7 coverage. The Intensivist I talked to didn't feel like there was a need since the IV Team is always available to place a PICC when needed.
For more information on IO therapy go to WWW.Vidacare.com (maker of EZ-10) and http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/80431-overview.
I also found some good policies and procedures at http://www.mercymemorial.org/EMS/intraosseous_infusion.htm. Also google Mountain-Valley EMS Agency Policies and Procedure. Good luck to you!