The SafeSet Blood Sampling System is an intuitive, easy-to-use system that helps conserve blood while protecting against exposure to bloodborne pathogens and increasing the efficiency and safety of the blood sampling process.
Hi, I'm here today to demonstrate the use of the IC U medical single arterial line with our safe set closed blood sampling system. For the sake of time, I've already started the, um, the process, meaning I've already spiked and pressurized my bag. As you can see, I've already attached my mounting bracket and my transducer mounting plates to the IV pole. Ok. See that here. So you wanna have that ready to go and then I've already removed the transducer set from the packaging. But as you'll see everything you need comes pre attached in one set, what you'll simply do is take the transducer pick which slot you're going to use and then just go ahead and snap that into place. Ok. Now we can begin to prime the set. The first thing I'm going to do is close the stop cock to the pressure tubing and then prime out the side port. Once I prime out the side port of the stopcock, each transducer comes with yellow dead end caps in the packaging. So I'm gonna re remove the white vented cap and replace that with the yellow non vented cap. Now, my transducer is primed I'm gonna move on to priming out the length of pressure tubing, which now includes the safe set closed blood sampling system. OK. So this is the, the largest change in practice. All right. As you can see, safe set is a in line syringe with two sampling ports and a one way stopcock. There are two sampling ports on the set, but it's really your choice on which one to use. We've, we put one close to the safe set syringe for better access for anesthesia because it would be outside the drape. And then we have a second stop cock closest to the patient that is used uh primarily in the IC U. But like I said, it's your choice on which sampling port you'd like to use safe set is going to help eliminate blood waste and keep the line completely closed. What we're gonna do is house the waste temporarily into the safe set. Syringe, draw our sample from the sampling port and then give the waste right back to the patient. OK. So to prime out safe set like any syringe, when we're priming it, we're gonna wanna invert it as such with the one way stop cock facing up, looking similar to a rocket ship taking off. OK? Once you get it inverted, you'll just squeeze on the handles of the safe set to unlock the handles and then draw back. It's a 10 CC syringe graduated to 12. You wanna draw back to maybe 3 to 4 CCS just to help conserve a little bit of the saline. Then you'll go to your flush, your squeeze flush device, squeeze until you get fluid, uh till you fill that dead space with fluid. Till it gets above the one way. Stop cock. Make sure there's no micro bubbles in that spot. And then leaving the set inverted. Simply take a finger, push upward until the safe set handle locks itself into place. You'll hear a light audible click, letting you know that that handle was locked. Now, my safe set syringe is completely primed and you no longer have to invert it for any reason. So then I would just go to the remaining length of pressure tubing, go to my flush device, make sure your pressure tubing is absent of air. And then at that point, I will connect my arterial line to my a arterial catheter on the patient. Ok. At that point, you would connect your transducer cable and then zero the transducer and your monitor the way you normally would no, no change in practice there. So the blood sampling process, what you'll need is your A BG syringe like you use now. And then we have individually packaged shielded blunt cannula that will have to be added to the A BG syringe in order to access our cannula access sampling port. So that simply connects there to a um lower locking syringe. It will also fit on a slip tip if you're using a slip tip, so you have that ready to go. The first step in the sampling process will be to go to your safe set syringe, squeeze the handles to unlock and then slowly pull back the waste into the safe set syringe one cc per second. Nice and slow. It's a 10 cc syringe graduated to 12. If you pull back anywhere from 7 to 10, that will ensure a clean sample, it's a sampling site, you can simply stop your next step is to close that one way. Stop cock so that I'm just pulling waste from the patient and there's no risk of pulling back some of the waste from the safe set. I'm going to use the sampling port closest to the patient. You can disinfect per hospital policy. The shielded blunt cannula has notches on either side. You just need to line that up with the sampling port and apply it much like a saddle. Push that down. It'll sit right on that sampling port. Draw your lab till you have enough before you remove your syringe. Close the one way stopcock to eliminate back pressure from the patient so that when you remove the syringe, you eliminate or minimize the amount of puddling or clean up that's on the shielded blunt cannon. At that point. I have my lab. I want to open my one way stop clock here. I wanna open my one way stock clock here and then again. Nice and slowly one CC per second. Give the waste back to the patient until safe set locks into place. Again, you'll hear a click, click, go to my flush device. Squeeze on that and you'll notice that the line is clear and my sampling process is complete. Now, let me run through that process one more time with a little less commentary to show you what it's going to be like when you get used to the overall process. Ok. Safe set syringe 10, 7 to 10 CCS. Close the one way, apply my syringe. Draw my lab close my one way, remove my syringe, open my one way, open my one way, give my waist back till safe set locks, fast flush and I'm done. Thank you.
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