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1. IV amiodarone for chronic afib, is it safe?

   rnvancouver replied to rnvancouver's topic in Cardiac

   No, the amio was not controlling this patient's rate sufficiently, his heart rate went down to 120 at times but was still up to 130's the night he was on it. He was in rapid afib before surgery as I also had him as a preop patient. At that time he wa...

2. IV amiodarone for chronic afib, is it safe?

   rnvancouver replied to rnvancouver's topic in Cardiac

   Thanks for the reply! The patient stopped taking his coumadin for a couple years so he was not anticoagulated and that is why I was mostly worried and trying to understand the different doctors' rationales, I am a new nurse on a stepdown unit and fre...

3. IV amiodarone for chronic afib, is it safe?

   rnvancouver posted a topic in Cardiac

   I had a patient today who has a history of uncontrolled afib/flutter for about 6 years , 53 year old post op day 2 from CABG. He received iv amio in csicu and did not convert, he was on oral amio when admitted to our unit but remained with HR 120-150...

4. Need encouragement, very anxious

   rnvancouver replied to Bluekal's topic in New Nurse

   I am a new grad on a cardiac stepdown unit and have many days when I feel the same. I cried on my way home today! I have also woken up panicking imagining myself programming a pump wrong or hanging the wrong med ect. (none of which I have done), I ha...