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Coding someone who is above 80 or cancer filled is a terrible experience for me but it happens once a month. What people also fail to think about is how the person will be if we do get them back......

My guess is the nurse gave 1mg IV which is standard packaging for a code.

Your colleague is gonna feel worse when he/she gets brought to court.

My beef is that we did that before. We did a full neuro exam at shift change and introduced ourselves. Now we do a full report and go over orders ect and it all feels like its for customer...

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I work neuro sx icu and i am SO impressed by the work the rehab teams do. We send out people we never thought would stand again and they coming walking in months later. Makes my job worth it and it...

My hospital has just switched to bedside reporting in the icu which everyone besides ER and us has been doing. What I'm finding is that report takes 5 times as long as families ask questions and...

Ya usually they wait till after background check for that. You sound good but go in confident and humble.

This guy is very intelligent. What he said ^

From my experience temple pays the best while hahnemann is the worst.

That's what I was saying before, the d diner may be ordered but we rarely use it. D dimer will also be very elevated in CA patients who tend to have medical icu admissions.

I would say by their presentation yes they absolutely should have been scanned. The NP and other nurse mentioning vq scan both made solid points. Pt is post op with shortness of breath and...

From my experience d-dimers rarely mean anything anymore. My hospital barely does them, if we suspect PE the patient gets scanned. Sounds like ur docs need to implement better dvt prophylaxis

Glad I don't work with you although I'm married and faithful. You just sound like a pain in the you know what. Not a fact, just my opinion. Go to work, take care of your patients, go home.

Neurosx will usually try to coil asap and get a venticulostomy if pt is gonna have hydrocephalus(likely). I work neuroscience icu now and are treatments are rapid if the patients gcs is dropping but...

Lift with ur legs ;)

Squeeky wheel gets the oil.

On my NSICU we use sbp unless the patient had a ventric or Codman placed in which case our neuro surgs use cpp parameters.

2 weeks still intubated..... Sounds like a high mortality rate for me, im sorry.

20 units/hr.... U guys must have had some insane potassium shifts....

I do not believe in god but I always do my best to take care of people the way I would want to be treated. I think that it is far more important to be competent and nurturing then sharing the same...

We usually rewarm .25 to .5 degrees an hour. So ya one degree in 8 hours seems off.

We rewarm slowwwww so we won't make them code with all the shifting going on.

My hospital uses the Vigileo fast trak hemodynamic monitoring system but I'd rather have a swan.

I have 15 tattoos but none show in scrubs, my boss or patients don't know I have any. My recommendation would be to get a tattoo in a hidden place.