Warning! Potassium in the IV...

[KeeWee 470]

If u hear them say after drawing blood that u need a potassium drip, let me warn u....it will burn like crazy and they already know it. If they try to administer at 100, tell them u want less than 75, 60 was a lil better..

It burned and I screamed so loud everyone came running...then the nurse says, u took all ur pain so well that I thought u can handle it. Then proceeds to say how no one can handle 100...smh

[elfnow 277]

If u hear them say after drawing blood that u need a potassium drip, let me warn u....it will burn like crazy and they already know it. If they try to administer at 100, tell them u want less than 75, 60 was a lil better.. It burned and I screamed so loud everyone came running...then the nurse says, u took all ur pain so well that I thought u can handle it. Then proceeds to say how no one can handle 100...smh

*all the swearing*

[KeeWee 470]

*all the swearing*

Absolutely!

[Healthygal 50]

Wow, that's really medically unethical. Next time tell the nurse she's fired and let them assign you to someone else with a brain. I am speaking as a registered nurse. K+ is typically run at the rate the patient can tolerate. It's nasty.