This patient was receiving continuous medication, and the pump kept alarming occluded at patient's side.After trouble shooting multiple things, it was determined to be the j loop or bd maxzero.The second port, closest to the patient, the blue part is getting squished and is occluding the other port and not letting a slow infusion medication infuse and you can't flush that port either.This has probably been happening on our unit with various patients and their infusions.The j loop was replaced after being tested that the blue part was not blocking anything.
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