STATE OF OHIO - SOMC

A peripheral IV that’s been capped and flushed with saline is still called a “hep-lock” nowadays, but we flush very few lines with heparin any more – dialysis catheters come to mind, and even they get flushed with ACD these days. ... It’s pretty hard to run blood through a tiny little 22-gauge IV. An 18 is good for giving blood ... ................
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