So its around 4am and we get a code blue in ICU... I have been expecting the call for some time, well since they took the crash cart in there to be on the safe side lol
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Guess the Lasix can kick in if you can do chest compressions well enough to get the blood to the kidneys. Still hard to make urine when the only blood you're pushing through the kidneys is with each chest compression. :D
We have Servo i's and they dont either, of course we can put one on if we wanted to but when I was a student doing clinicals at MUSC we were told that they can be rather tricky and unreliable...
I dont understand why our ventilated patients arent all given art lines either... Having to stick someone for weeks or even months on end every single morning is just plain cruel.
< sigh > being in SC we are rather backwards and only give rather basic care. I am not really on top of the latest in the respiratory field. Which is rather sad considering I only graduated in 07.
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Guess the Lasix can kick in if you can do chest compressions well enough to get the blood to the kidneys. Still hard to make urine when the only blood you're pushing through the kidneys is with each chest compression. :D
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The ICU vents at our hospital apparently do not come with a continuous end tidal CO2 monitor. Do yours?
Why should they not come with one? It seems this simple addition would prevent having to send arterial blood gases all the time.
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I dont understand why our ventilated patients arent all given art lines either... Having to stick someone for weeks or even months on end every single morning is just plain cruel.
< sigh > being in SC we are rather backwards and only give rather basic care. I am not really on top of the latest in the respiratory field. Which is rather sad considering I only graduated in 07.
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