[cardiacRN2006]

Originally Posted by NRSKarenRN

e. Mucolytic oral meds: Guiafenissen, Humbid, Mucinex

Yes! I ask for Mucinex all the time and Drs look at me like I'm speaking another language! It works so well, but I have to engage in battle to get such a simple order. And I DON'T want it with DM.

Didn't Drs take pharmacology?

Sigh.....

[TDub]

It's "toilette" v. as in grooming, cleaning, making fresh and servicable as opposed to "toilet" n. a receptacle for human waste.

[kukukajoo]

TDub- it was written "toilet" in a handout and also on the board twice.

I think the difference is one is French, of which we happen to have a huge population up here in New Hampshire.

[TDub]

You're absolutley right--"toilet" is incorrect. It's Pulmonary Toilette. That what confuses one, because of course your mind jumps to the porcelain receptacle. When I was in school, I wrote 'toilet' and man, did I get skinned alive by the professorial nuns.

[NRSKarenRN]

I too love Mucinex as its active ingredient is Guaifenesin 600 mg as extended-release tablet...much easier than needing to take liquid prep every 4 hours.

use with caution:
*Mucinex D: contains Guaifenesin plus Pseudophedrine 60 mg (makes some people hyper/ heart palpitations) and

*Mucinex DM: contains Guaifenesin plus Dextromethorpan cough suppressant

http://www.drugdigest.org/DD/DVH/Use...umibid,00.html

Re toilet or toilette......only seen "Pulmonary toilet" in nursing and medical literature; wouldn't be suprised if we corupted the name

[rngreenhorn]

Originally Posted by jill48

OMG! I have never heard of pulmonary toilet. It sounds so funny! But there is one phrase that I use quite often in my own charting that others think is funny: rectal vault. As in, "Upon digital examination of the rectal vault, this nurse found large, hard stool".

Ah yes, the "rectal vault", also known as the "loading dock."

But, not to be confused with Al Capone's vault. Let hope we never see a Geraldo Rivera special in which he is about to discover the contents of the rectal vault.

But, I digress. Remember never to flush the contents of the rectal vault in the pulmonary toilet.

Cheers.

[jill48]

Originally Posted by rngreenhorn

Ah yes, the "rectal vault", also known as the "loading dock."

But, not to be confused with Al Capone's vault. Let hope we never see a Geraldo Rivera special in which he is about to discover the contents of the rectal vault.

But, I digress. Remember never to flush the contents of the rectal vault in the pulmonary toilet.

Cheers.

[blueheaven]

Crumping, crashing and burning, circling the drain. Our morgue is on 4D so sometimes we say they were transferred to 4D. There is another term we use here... DFO. Done fell over (off). This refers to people who fall over and someone decides to call a code blue. This happens usually in the morning after people have been seen in the methadone clinic and waiting for their primary care appt. We get there and they are still breathing etc...nurse A "Did they make it?" nurse B "Sure! It was a DFO!"

[gr8rnpjt]

I have heard that this is a strictly local term (Pittsburghese):

Ceased to breathe (died)