[Total Package]

My mother is on 'Vancomycin' drip every 48 hours. It MUST run for at least 120 min. every time.

Vancomycin can be a nephrotoxic antibiotic it usually comes in a 250ml bag so to run it at 125ml/hr is normal. The max rate that an IV is run is generally 150ml/hr, unless they are in acute renal failure is a diuretic faze.

[Dustbunny]

My mother has a MRSA infection in the remaining bone of her thigh per the bone scan. The MRI was needed to determine where the pockets of infection were outside of the bone. The IV must run for 120 or more minutes according to the instructions that are included with each ball. Each of the balls so far are 175ml. Most of the time the ball flows for much more than the 120 minutes, today it took 3 1/2 hours.

A blood sample is taken once a week prior to my connecting the IV. An RN comes to draw the blood.

Thanks for the information.