A status-post car accident sustained a serious right arm degloving injury from shoulder to wrist.Pain service had regional block placed for post-op pain management.Started out with a an intrascalene catheter, and changed to intraclavicular with bupivacaine 0.25% continous infusion.The device was changed out to an infraclavicular catheter (the administration set used to have a label with black bold print indicating that it was an epidural catheter and the currents sets do not.The yellow stripe becomes visible if you turn the tubing a certain way and the previous tubing used to be stiffer, where this tubing is more pliable.Had a label come with the set, this may have prevented the mix up.The male luer is compatible with the extension sets that are used with the regular iv tubing sets) and when they went to connect it to the bupivacaine it was found that the bupivacaine had been connected to her peripheral iv on the left arm.Patient was mildly lethargic, tachycardic at 110 bpm, alert and oriented x3.A suspected local anesthetic systemic toxicity (last) protocol was initiated.Ekg showed st with no av/sa nodal block.A 20% intralipid infusion was bolused, followed by a continous infusion.The patient was transferred to icu for closer monitoring.The patient was transferred back to floor status the following day without any harm noted.
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