Continuous Bladder Irrigation

I was also told that you had to use the "special" 2000cc Normal Saline for irrigation bags for CBI. However, a nurse last night kept hanging regular 1000cc NS IV bags which I thought had different preservatives. Was she doing the patient harm or was I overreacting?
We see alot of these on the floor, TURPs and TURBs, etc with CBI. I can't imagine using the 1 liter bags of NS, as it is we're in there often enough hanging the 2L bags! I don't think there is a difference between the two (NS is NS, right?) but out of sheer convenience, who would willingly choose the smaller bag? We always just have the US order a box of irrigation bags and put them in the room. However most of our our CBI's tend to use the glycine irrigation over the NS.

We use 3 liter bags, a 1 ltr bag would be gone too fast. We also order them up to the floor by the cases. But I do think NS is NS so no harm to patient just convience.

Ooops, I meant to say 3000 bags, not 2L. We use the same big bags as you do, jmgrn65.

Thanks for the replies. Obviously, hanging a 1000cc bag was silly because she was going through like 1-2/hour. I was also just thinking that if the NS is good enough to go in IV, it should be fine to irrigate the bladder.

We use 2K L bags; wish we had 3000 as I wouldn't have to change them so frequently for so many pts that have fast flows. Then again, hauling a bag that size up the "flagpole" all night doesn't sound like fun, either

Quote from RNsRWeWe use 2K L bags; wish we had 3000 as I wouldn't have to change them so frequently for so many pts that have fast flows. Then again, hauling a bag that size up the "flagpole" all night doesn't sound like fun, either

And I guess a bag would weight around 2 Kg or 4.4 lbs.

Quote from MichaelFloridaRNYou are the one to set the flow according the the orders of the MD at what color he would like to have the output(likely clear).

maybe she was using 1000 bags because she could not get 3 L ones....had this problem from pharmacy before.....

We use 3L bags, 2 at a time for CBI.

We use 3L bags, 2 at a time for CBI. Same at our facility. Even if she was out of 3L bags wasn't there someone to call to go to pharm and get more bags? At our facility our house supervisor has access to the pharmacy and gets meds or whatever we need at noc.

We have 2 or 3L bags that specify "for irrigation only." Are you talking the 1L NS bags used for IV infusion? I don't imagine it would harm the patient, but it seems like it would be pricier for the patient. Not to mention a lot more work for the staff.