Mixing more saline with drugs

[akroeze]

I personally find it very easy to dilute 10mg of MS into 10cc and can't really imagine the fiddle of doing it any other way.

[scratrat]

Say your service carries morphine 10 mg in 1 ml of saline. Is there a benefit to say drawing up an additional 10 ml of saline so you have 10 mg in 11ml etc.? Some have told me that this makes it easier to push or smoother for the patient. Any truth to this?

Draw up 9 cc's NSS into a 10 cc syringe. Add your 1 mL of MS. This makes the concentration 1 mg/mL. Easy to view and easier to push slowly. Does nothing for the comfort of the pt. Just ease of figuring out the dose. And if you use carpujets, just revove the end that you normally would connect to the pt. It can be drawn out into the 10cc syringe this way.

[ccmedoc]

It actually does minimize the sting that some feel with administration of the morphine, and some other narcotics..some individuals (pts.) dislike the fact that the narcs are reduced because it minimizes the 'rush' the patient may feel..patient comfort is one reason, but I feel that ease of administration is the primary reason it is done..