Ask your health care provider or pharmacist if you have questions.

Chemotherapie 5 fu pumpe. Push, usually given over 3 to 5 minutes on day 1, after the end of the leucovorin infusion; The fluorouracil concentration varies between each patient’s pump, but the total volume and flow rates are constant at 230 ml and 5 ml/hr. One pair of gloves (not pictured) chemo disposal bag.

Lastly and very important, ask for a premedication of aloxi or emend for your first treatment, to tamp down nausea and or vomiting. This is called a continuous infusion of chemotherapy. It slows the growth of cancer cells.

If this patient is medicare you are going to bill the drug to dmerc and the place of service will be home. Your pump has many parts (see figure 1). Your doctor will talk to you about this treatment and its possible side effects before you agree to have treatment.

An inner membrane that holds the chemotherapy and an outer cover. If the patient comes back for a refill of the 5fu , then you would use 96521. Antimetabolites are similar to substances within a normal cell.

Smartez ® chemotherapy elastomeric infusion pumps are approved for use with chemotherapy medications. This drug has demonstrated differing levels of activity dependent on the schedule of administration in experimental and clinical models. The push is billed 96411.

To reflect the reality in a clinic setting that someone would have to weigh the pump. However, two types of pumps exist. It belongs to a category of chemotherapy known as anti metabolites.