jcmelhorn

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1. Variable staffing based on patient acuity & census in ICU

   jcmelhorn replied to lcsmithrn's topic in MICU

   For those of you who posted about a 1:1 for CRRT is that automatically singled in your unit? Or just if they are high acuity? We rarely single assign CRRT in our unit unless they happen to be proned for example.

2. Is this common practice?

   jcmelhorn replied to Sugarcoma's topic in MICU

   I work at a SICU at a Level 1 trauma center. Our patients that are intubated post-op more often than not come straight from the OR without being reversed. We start all of our patients on propofol and fentanyl gtts unless the doctor specifically indic...

3. Therapuetic Hypothermia

   jcmelhorn replied to kaiser0926's topic in MICU

   Like others have said, we use the coolguard at our Hospital. We cool for 24hrs at 32C and then rewarm 0.5C/hr. Coolguard does a pretty good job controlling this. Now, I know you have to be careful not to rewarm to fast. However what is the rationale...