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  1. 4 hour code blue

    I apologize if you're confusing a teaching opportunity with belittling. I was trying to offer insight as to why he turned the corner(the amio) and the advantage of biphasic defibs and discuss those issues. If you'd rather me just say 'gj on flogging ...
  2. 4 hour code blue

    I apologize if you're confusing a teaching opportunity with belittling. I was trying to offer insight as to why he turned the corner(the amio) and the advantage of biphasic defibs and discuss those issues. If you'd rather me just say 'gj on flogging ...
  3. 4 hour code blue

    I don't think the balloon 'solved' your VT, as it doesn't 'open' the coronaries, rather it facilitates their filling. An IABP isn't a substitute for PTCA. There was some other etiology, and Im sure the amiodarone gtt you started solved your arrhythmi...
  4. 4 hour code blue

    I don't think the balloon 'solved' your VT, as it doesn't 'open' the coronaries, rather it facilitates their filling. An IABP isn't a substitute for PTCA. There was some other etiology, and Im sure the amiodarone gtt you started solved your arrhythmi...
  5. 4 hour code blue

    Why would you want a monophasic? Biphasic has been proven more effective and you can crank a biphasic to 360. We do it very often.
  6. 4 hour code blue

    Why would you want a monophasic? Biphasic has been proven more effective and you can crank a biphasic to 360. We do it very often.
  7. Insulin during cardiac arrest?

    "Calcium (chloride) is indicated for hyperkalemia during a code. And, it is indicated first line for severe hyperkalemia." Why do you keep repeating this? Its cookbook medicine and not even the point I was making. You were incorrect in saying that Ca...
  8. Insulin during cardiac arrest?

    "Calcium (chloride) is indicated for hyperkalemia during a code. And, it is indicated first line for severe hyperkalemia." Why do you keep repeating this? Its cookbook medicine and not even the point I was making. You were incorrect in saying that Ca...
  9. How To Determine ET Tube Placement

    So a Sa02, Abgs, ETCO2, EBBS and a PCXR (ALL done in a pt Why not just go for a CT to check ETT placement? Thats just as pragmatic as your bronch comment.
  10. Insulin during cardiac arrest?

    Your 2 quotes are contradictory. Ca has absolutely 0 effect on the potassium level. It only acts to normalize the normal resting membrane potential thereby rturning myocyte excitability to a more normal level. It is more of a cardioprotective measure...
  11. Insulin during cardiac arrest?

    Your 2 quotes are contradictory. Ca has absolutely 0 effect on the potassium level. It only acts to normalize the normal resting membrane potential thereby rturning myocyte excitability to a more normal level. It is more of a cardioprotective measure...
  12. 4 hour code blue

    You 'coded' a person for 5 hours and 25 min s/p code they wer AAOx3? And 10 tries to get a fem cvl? No wonder it took 5 hours.
  13. 4 hour code blue

    You 'coded' a person for 5 hours and 25 min s/p code they wer AAOx3? And 10 tries to get a fem cvl? No wonder it took 5 hours.
  14. does anyone use swans anymore?

    The decline of PACs probably has more to do with MDs than RNs.
  15. does anyone use swans anymore?

    I don't think it necessary for me to go browsing pubmed to 'prove' that PAd approximates PAWP in a NORMAL heart. That is common knowledge and I am far too busy. This text was handy so on pg. 211 of "Hemodynamic Monitoring: Invasive and Noninvasive Cl...