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piggyback

English translation: See explanation below

06:25 Feb 20, 2006
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Medical: Instruments / Blood Conservation System
English term or phrase: piggyback
Do not mix collected blood with any medication or ¡°piggyback¡± the medication into a flowing blood path.
Jianming Sun
Local time: 04:12
Selected answer:See explanation below
Explanation:
To "piggyback" an intravenous medication or fluid means to infuse the fluid through a pre-existing intravenous line by means of a Y connector.

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Michael Barnett
Local time: 16:12
Grading comment
Thank you all for kind help!
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
5 +8See explanation below
Michael Barnett
4 +3Do not use the same channel for administering any other medicine
Balasubramaniam L.


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Do not use the same channel for administering any other medicine


Explanation:
Do not use the channel being used for transfusing blood to administer any other medicine.

Piggyback means take a free ride.

Balasubramaniam L.
India
Local time: 01:42
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in HindiHindi
PRO pts in category: 11

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agree  Carmen Schultz: Basically do not use the existing pathway
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agree  zaphod
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agree  Seema Ugrankar
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +8
See explanation below


Explanation:
To "piggyback" an intravenous medication or fluid means to infuse the fluid through a pre-existing intravenous line by means of a Y connector.

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Note added at 33 mins (2006-02-20 06:58:58 GMT)
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http://www.ucsf.edu/dpsl/iv.html

Michael Barnett
Local time: 16:12
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
Thank you all for kind help!

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