fairone

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1. Family visitation in ICU

   fairone replied to bfjworr's topic in MICU

   /start vent This topic has recently become an issue in our unit and can relate to each and every problem posted in this topic. Management recently decided that we were to abolish our current visiting hours and have an open visitation policy after a f...

2. Family visitation in ICU

   fairone replied to bfjworr's topic in General Nursing

   /start vent This topic has recently become an issue in our unit and can relate to each and every problem posted in this topic. Management recently decided that we were to abolish our current visiting hours and have an open visitation policy after a f...

3. Vent setting question

   fairone replied to memphispanda's topic in MICU

   Is this setting on a Siemens Servo vent? I'm not really familiar with it as we traded in our Servo's for Dragers a while back, but I found some info on 'automode' for the servo's - hope this helps. ------------- Servo (auto mode): The auto mode is s...

4. Lowest Blood pH

   fairone replied to EricTAMUCC-BSN's topic in MICU

   I should be suprised, but I'm not. People try anything. I remember a mother once putting peas down her sons PEG tube....

5. Lowest Blood pH

   fairone replied to EricTAMUCC-BSN's topic in MICU

   6.9 on a diabetic ketoacidosis pt...survived. I've never seen a pa02 less then 30 - 40 - I remember taking one somewhere in that range and concluding it must have been venous. Repeat taken. Um....no.

6. Vent setting question

   fairone replied to memphispanda's topic in MICU

   Slope is the inspiratory rise time which basically controls the time it takes to reach the preset pressure or preset flow. (What I understand it as anyway..) A diagram shows it here: http://www.aic.cuhk.edu.hk/web8/mech%20vent%20intro.htm Hope that...

7. Cvvhd

   fairone replied to dv8rn's topic in MICU

   Absolutely 1:1. The patients that usually require filtering (CVVDHF) in our unit are the unstable, inotrope dependant, ventilated patients and filtering these patients can further potentiate their haemodynamic instablity. We also setup, manage and tr...