Dear listers, Oxaliplatin is a chemotherapy drug that is incompatible with saline. So, glucose is used as flushing solution.
I administered this to a GI cancer patient today through his freshly placed Groshong PICC. I finished off with flushing the line with saline, after flushing it with the glucose. Was that necessary, or could I just as well have left the PICC with glucose in it? I am mainly thinking of any difference in infection risk. Maybe someone else has any other concern about leaving glucose in a PICC. Thanks Mats in Stockholm
