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Cuppla thoughts: 1) If anesthesia reported the patient was a difficult intubation it would have been optimal for anesthesia to have been there to reintubate the patient. Preggos are ...

Low-Dose Dopamine in Patients with Renal Dysfunction: No Benefit http://www.turner-white.com/memberfile.php?PubCode=jcom_feb01_orrrenal.pdf "Renal Dose" Dopamine in Surgical...

Sounds like you are dealing with some variation of septic shock. This game is about MAP and preservation of end organ perfusion. There is no “Max” dose of norepinephrine. It is just a nursing myth...

Ketamine is an excellent drug with outstanding analgesic, amnestic and sedative capabilities. The trick is to avoid the dissociative effects if benzodiazepines are not being administered. I use it...

I pick the one that is the best fit for my 3/4" 14 gauge. Typically that will be either the cephalic vein or somewhere in the dorsal venous network.

There are hate groups, anti-this or anti-that fan clubs for just about anything and everyone. What are you going to do. Look at the stinky hippies on wallstreet....they hate capitalism and free...

Carol, when a poster comes into a CRNA forum and chooses to inaccurately describe our profession, education, licensing and even our title….they are going to get called out on it. The original...

A fairly large part of nurse anesthetist education focuses on the history of anesthesia and that of nurse anesthetists. CRNAs have NEVER been called assistant anesthesia RNs. Aside from...

the level of ignorance regarding the nurse anesthetist profession on this website is absolutely astounding. that is why you do not find too many crnas posting. crnas have actually been around for...

Sorry, but many of these statements regurgitate perpetual nursing dogmas that once investigated are easily proven wrong. The crystalloid with the most physiological resemblance to plasma is...

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If there is a communication between the left and right heart and right sided pressures exceed left, air can get into the aorta where it enters the arterial circulation. This is bad. Actually, air in...

Look up right to left shunts and this will give you a good idea of the people at risk. The majority of the time a small amount of air in the venous system goes to the right side of the heart, into...

That is not exactly the best way to answer that question. Mreicher pretty much was correct in regards to blood loss. Think of a bag of packed red cells. The hematocrit averages 70%. Pour out half of...

I find this statement quite amusing. What do you think YOUR healthcare provider (FP or even internist) knows about MH? I guarantee you it is less than that of a first year SRNA or AA student. ...

Look up Cushing's triad

Anesthesia or if I couldn't get back into school...... street pharmacist (no taxable income).

Sounds like a bradykinen disorder. Maybe related to something obvious like an ace inhibitor. Could also be something more complex such as a hereditary disorder that is constantly activating her...

There is one answer and that answer is FRC. Once the functional residual capacity is depleted the dude meets Jesus unless someone is around that actually knows how to ventilate/oxygenate the gomer....

Greygull, I believe you have completely missed the point I was attempting to get across in this whole alphabet soup game. What someone chooses to post on their forum profile in fantasyland (an...

I could not agree more man. All of those consonants and vowels randomly strewn together are confusing to the patients as well as the nursing and medical staff. The bottom line, I will be more...

To me, this is just another example that further proves the lack of useful education in nursing schools today. Something as simple as placing an IV is a task learned through repetition. It is a shame...

"When in doubt, pull it out".... best advice I have ever received. I apply it to my practice every day.

Nurse Anesthesia school does not equal Nurse Practitioner school. 60-70 hours of OR time per week (5-6 days), 8 hours of didactic (1-2 days) and a minimum of 10-20 hours of self study. I cannot...

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