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1. A few practice questions

   quecon replied to 9309's topic in Emergency

   Trendelenberg has been out for quite sometime. The baroreceptors in the aortic arch and the chemoreceptors in the carotid respond to low volume . and low O2 levels by initiating the body's compensatory mechanisms By putting patients in Trendelenberg,...

2. propofol

   quecon replied to popbob's topic in Emergency

   Dear RN Cardiac--if you don"t feel comfortable doing or giving something, don"t do it!! As a past member of a state nursing board, I had to discipline many nurses who did something because "a Dr ordered it or said it was OK" even tho in some cases i...

3. propofol

   quecon replied to popbob's topic in Emergency

   Does anyone anywhere have a competency program in place for nurses who use propofol?? In our hospital, nurses can administer an IV drip to intubated patients only. A few ED docs have wanted to give it for concious sedation, but our anesthesiology dep...

4. Pure Tone Stethoscopes

   quecon replied to blufoxtrot's topic in Emergency

   I was "talked into" buying a Pure tone stethescope a couple of years ago--I wouln"t get another one if they gave it to me. When I questioned the representative the next year regarding its poor quality, he told me I "probably didn't know how to use i...