Nursing staff were getting an icu room ready for a patient that was coming out of the or post-cardiac surgery.While staff began to ready the room, they hung 2 bags of iv fluids, using the 'baxter clearlink system y-type blood/solution set with large standard blood filter and pressure pump'.Once the rn prepped the lines with the iv solution, liquid began to shoot out of the line.Nursing staff stopped the flow and examined the line.There is a pen sized hole in the line at the connection of the blood filter and iv line that caused the fluid to shoot out.This instance did not cause any harm to a patient, but a large majority of the time these fluid lines are used for administering blood to patients, and if was an emergent situation, and this line was used, it could have caused harm to the patient by delaying care.
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