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Got any ideas? We are supposed to submit a list to our nurse manager, and I'm not aware of anything. Thanks.
Literature says X rays can be taken by lifting baby and placing plate directly on z-flo.
Right, but you still have to lift the baby. You can't use the drawer in the Giraffes or radiant warmers. And on a folded blanket bed, you can often sort of slip the plate underneath the kid without fully lifting him off the bed. Our worst was the first kid we got a Zflo for, actually. Osteogenesis imperfecta. So needs lots of Xrays, on a Zflo, and tricky to pick up and put down. Baaaad combo.
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Radiology still will not shoot an xray if a kid is on one of them....
I have a problem with how huge they are and how much room they take up inside the isolette. Especially with micros, they end up looking like they're perched on a table. I can get much better developmental positioning with the small gel pad and blanket rolls.
I'm liking the new mixed venous SvO2 buccal/cerebral sat monitors we've been using on our pre and postop cardiacs. They're great for making treatment decisions based on cerebral saturations....