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**pkopwqzsdcvbn** · 06-04-2009, 07:51 PM

OK, I know I may be crawling out on an unpopular limb here, but straight normal saline has NO preservative in it. In hospitals, the vial is only good for 24 hours at most after punctured. Bacteriostatic water at least has a small amount of alcohol in it to prevent organism growth. When we mix drugs in a hospital, we are indifferent between BS water and normal saline. Some drugs require D5W, which is differnt entirely. But I think we may be splitting hairs and possibly risking infectin by trying to eliminate BS water. Barb

06-04-2009, 07:51 PM	#2
pkopwqzsdcvbn Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 395 Senior Member	OK, I know I may be crawling out on an unpopular limb here, but straight normal saline has NO preservative in it. In hospitals, the vial is only good for 24 hours at most after punctured. Bacteriostatic water at least has a small amount of alcohol in it to prevent organism growth. When we mix drugs in a hospital, we are indifferent between BS water and normal saline. Some drugs require D5W, which is differnt entirely. But I think we may be splitting hairs and possibly risking infectin by trying to eliminate BS water. Barb
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