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Permalink Reply by Brittany on August 3, 2008 at 12:16pm

HUH? On my volunteer squad, we have to draw up our own flushes, and even on the private ambulance I work on, we rarely have them. I've seen them in the private ambulance service's drug box, but that's only sealed because of the other drugs, not NaCl, because we have flushes in our IV box (when we have the flushes to begin with...). Wow. I've never heard of that.

Permalink Reply by Paramedics do it better on October 7, 2008 at 6:15pm

Speachless, but being the devils advocate........... maybe they are thinking drug users would use the syringes. But still....wow, this is the first Ive heard of this. Good luck on that.

Permalink Reply by Shareef Abdu Nur on October 8, 2008 at 11:30am

It was explained to me that the drugs and flushes are locked up not only to prevent theft, but also to keep anyone from tampering with your meds. What if someone maliciously traded your saline flushes for another harmful substance in order to cause pain or even death. The world is full of evil people and the saving grace is that one day, we get to have them supine strapped to a backboard.