We change all our tubing every 72 hours. The only
thing that gets changed sooner is Diprivan tubing (12
hours). Each facility writes their own policy based
(I assume) on whatever research the management team
has read recently. You can find research supporting
48, 72, and 96 hour changes.

Paul Ladwig
--- jellis6584@... wrote:
> Just wondering how often you all change pressure
> tubing. Our hospital
> mandates tubing change every 48 hours. The last
> hospital I worked at
> required us to change the tubing every 96 hours, so
> there seems to be little
> consistency here. Is there a standard, and is it
> based on infection control
> guidelines? I would appreciate any input any of you
> might have. Thanks.
>
> Hysteria
>
>
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>
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