Description of Event or Problem · 1
LEAKED AT JOINT IN HUMMI TUBING. ASSESSED LINE WITH OFF GOING RN IN EVENING, NO PROBLEMS NOTED. ASSESSED PATIENT 1 HOUR LATER, NO PROBLEMS NOTED. INFANT BECAME FUSSY (IS NORMALLY A FUSSY BABY), AND ANOTHER NURSE WAS CALLED TO THE ROOM TO COMFORT HIM WHILE I WAS BUSY WITH MY OTHER BABY. AFTER A FEW MINUTES, THE RN NOTED FRESH SPOTS OF BLOOD APPEARING ON BEDDING THAT WERE NOT THERE BEFORE AND FRANK BLOOD BACKING UP IN THE RED LUMEN OF THE DOUBLE LUMEN PICC LINE. LINE WAS FLUSHED WITH NS BUT BLOOD RETURNED ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AND WAS VISIBLY LEAKING FROM THE HUB OF THE HUMMI DEVICE ATTACHED TO THE END OF THE PICC LINE. HUMMI HAD NOT BEEN USED FOR BLOOD DRAWS SINCE INFANT HAS BEEN IN THIS UNIT. HUMMI WAS REMOVED FROM PICC LINE AND A T-PIECE PUT ON IN ITS PLACE WHEN THE LINE WAS CHANGED SHORTLY THEREAFTER. THE DEVICE WAS SENT TO MANUFACTURER. THIS IS ALL INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THIS EVENT.