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JULY 12, 2022

‘Spiking’ and the Joint Commission

A Costly Misinterpretation of USP Chapter 797

John G. Brock-Utne, MD, PhD, and
Richard A. Jaffe, MD, PhD
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, Calif.

 

Originally published by our sister publication Anesthesiology News

The Joint Commission (JC) has in the past, and again as recently as Oct. 19, 2021, declared: “Once an IV bag of fluid is spiked with the IV tubing …, the infusion must be started within 1 hour of spiking the bag unless the