Patient found by this rn to be using his left hand, which is in a soft wrist restraint, pulling his ekg leads off, hitting the buttons on the bed and inadvertently raising the head of bed and feed up and down, and playing with the snap closure of the restraint.Bedside rn came to his bedside and noticed the iv trifuse tubing laying across the patient had snapped off of the connection to his left arm picc.The attachment end of the trifuse was still attached to one of the picc lumens.The patient's precedex gtt had been infusing through this line.Snapped line was detached from patient, a new bag of precedex was ordered since the line had been open for a undetermined amount of time.Tubing sent to bme and biomedical noted separation of male lurer extension form the trifuse apex.
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