Normal saline?

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salinecockpumper
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Normal saline?

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Can you use normal saline flushes to use for injections?
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cjfatnite
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Re: Normal saline?

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According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saline_flush, it seems that one use of flushes is to make sure that all of an IV medication has been injected, which implies that it's expected that some if not all of the flush will entire the blood stream. I'd say the only increased risk would be from having to do so many individual injections, as each one increases the risk of infection.

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-CJ
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