re: Prayers Needed from the OT Community *Update Page 28*

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Houstonchick, as a mother who has lost a child, I can say there is no moving forward, there is no it’s getting better.

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I know. I lived through both of my parents losing my sister. They never got over it.

Just trying to offer some positivity to him. Maybe getting answers and the service can offer some peace instead of the questioning stage they are in now. A sense of closure maybe. I was by no means saying it would be better immediately once that happened.

Difficult to tell, but the IV tubing appears to be what is normally used for older individuals, not pediatrics. The drip chamber, coming right off the bag, in a pediatric tubing set contains a pin about 3/4 inch long from which the fluid drops into the chamber. I zoomed in but don’t see any light bouncing off the shiny pin that would be there. Even if the fluids were wide open, the flow would be considered micro flow. 60 drops off the pin would equal 1 ml of fluid. This type of tubing is used in pediatrics, nicu and whenever a very tight control on volume is needed. A micro tubing, evern smaller is used in nicu mostly.

It’s ok Houstonchick. I didn’t mean to bite. I remember 15 years ago after losing my son, others kept telling me it would get better. It is different now, but never better. Thanks.

LSU Nurse, back up and look at the pic of that precious little man. Zoom in on the tubing, the drip chamber. I don’t see the light bouncing off the pin that would drip the fluid at a micro rate. Do you? That looks like standard tubing. Wonder if the nurse calculated drops as if it were microtubing. That would deliver a greater volume if standard IV tubing were used. Micro = 60 gtts/ml; Macro = 15 gtts/ml (4 x the micro volume), if I am remembering correctly. Thank God for IV pumps!!! These idiots should have had that as a minimum standard.

Redstick, I lost a child several years ago. He was in his 20's. This stuff is tough on a family. You can get through this. Stay close to your family and your God.

The doctor disconnected the tubing from the bag and let it splash from the bag to the floor and reconnected it. Never in my life!!! What is the name of this clinic? Thanks

No the contents of the bag were not splashing on the floor. He just kept emptying the drip chamber on the floor because it was filling up and not flowing down the IV lines. I'm not a medical professional so my wording may be wrong. I'm only going by what I saw and interpreted.

I do know that the drip went from zero flow to flowing down the line pretty fast once the pressure sleeve was on. Having been on a drip before myself I was thinking "Oh I hope that much cold fluid flowing into him that fast doesn't upset him". As soon as the drip started flowing everyone left the room and I was watching the rate myself. The rate dropped off pretty rapidly and I thought everything was normal. The last thing I did before leaving to go get my wife something to eat was look at the drip tube to see if it was still flowing. It was but at a very slow rate. From my observation the staff was most definitely not monitoring the flow rates of the IV.

That's another thing. There's not a single IVP documented when I saw with my own eyes an IVP given.

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From my observation the staff was most definitely not monitoring the flow rates of the IV.

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I can't get over that. If using an IV pump...this isn't as necessary cause you program the pump to deliver the exact rate you want. But you still glance at it to make sure you see it dripping.