HPN Awareness Week 2021 with Bettemarie and Congressman Fitzpatrick

Helping Raise Awareness of Life with HPN

During HPN (Home Parenteral Nutrition) Awareness Week last year, Bettemarie met with Pennsylvania Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick and taught him how to set up an HPN bag. Bette says, “I thought this would be a fun way to help him understand it better, and to give him something to think about when I talked to him about shortages and other issues relevant to home infusions!”

Bette’s home infusion company created a mock PN bag for her and she created a mock IV multivitamin. Bette says, “I gave a doll a central line so Congressman Fitzpatrick could flush the line and infuse through it.” Bette used extension tubing, cut off one end, and added a blunt needle so the mock solution drained into a plastic bag as it was infused.

Pump alarming high pressure--"We need to unclamp!"

Congressman Fitzpatrick asks,“What have you gotten me into! Haha. Only joking.” The HPN really did infuse through the baby’s central line into a baggie!