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continuing. That would never, ever happen, and yet we do that all the
time.
5 smart steps
Here are 5 attitudes and practices that anesthesia providers can and
should immediately adopt:
1. Disinfect your hands as often as possible. There's absolutely no question that our hands are the primary way that material from an object or
person gets transferred to another object or person.
2. Change your gloves frequently. Always consider that gloves are a
potential reservoir for all sorts of pathogenic material.
3. Keep stopcocks clean. When interacting with a drug that's going to be
administered intravenously, draw it up with the best aseptic technique
you can and administer it in a peripheral
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• ivNow automatically displays and
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shelf life of every IV bag.
• Available in multiple configurations,
every precaution to
the ivNow provides 20 to 140 liters
of warmed fluid in a 12 hour period.
keep clean.
• Mounting options — including
walls, booms, equipment poles and
countertops — allow you to save
4. Keep equipment
space and footsteps.
• Save money by using the ivNow
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warm IV fluids.
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