What are 2 advantages of a saline lock?
Answer:
Saline Locks provide an effective and more cost rationalized alternative to conventional use of IV Tubing and IV solution infusion through IV catheters. Easy accessibility and more comfortable to the patient not anyone hooked on IV solution just to hang on to the vein official document.
venous access in skin of emergency ie; during labor if something goes wrong, you already enjoy an IV in place
IV meds
1)Keep a artery open
2)Medications can ne administered beore during and after surgery lacking a second venepuncture.
1. allows better patient mobility (not "tethered" by IV tubing)
2. easier to keep up (no pumps to malfunction- just flush the port every shift)