steini

steini specializes in ER and ICU.

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1. Pulmonary Artery Catheter and Patients Mobility?

   steini posted a topic in CCU

   Dear colleagues, I´m wondering - do you mobile your patients when they still have PAC (for example: from bed to chair)?

2. Extubation?

   steini replied to steini's topic in MICU

   Thanks for great answers! It helps alot, but what about the procedure it self? What I mean is - how do you extubate your patients? I have seen some physicians/clinicians give patients 100% oxygen before extubation, other do not unplug the respirator ...

3. Extubation?

   steini posted a topic in MICU

   Dear colleagues, My name is Thorsteinn and I live in Iceland and work in a general intensive care unit. I was wondering about extubation, for example after CABG. Do nurses in your settning do that and if so, do you have some protocol to follow? Thank...