While priming the epidural tubing on the pump (prior to connecting to the patient), i noticed it was taking a long time to prime the tubing.It normally takes ~5 cc to prime the tubing fully, and 10 cc had been primed and still there was no solution coming out of the end of the tubing.I inspected the tubing and it seemed to be making it to the micron filter and was not going past the filter.I removed the tubing, and using the same pump, re=primed another tubing set.This tubing set worked normally with the same pump and was fully primed after 5 cc, pointing to the tubing (not the pump) as the issue.Fda safety report id # (b)(4).
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