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Specializes in Pediatric and Geriatric.

I just got a job in a assisted living facility. They say it is not skilled but I think it is. I have questions. I wonder what a bipap machine is and how it is different from a Cpap machine. I worked in a facility once before and I had a lady who could not breath. I sent her over to the hospital and they ended up putting a stent in. Is that what they do for Atrial Fibrillation. We never gave her her medication when she returned from the hospital. It seems to me they would have put her on Coumadin though. About two years later she had a stroke and could not talk anymore. Her family discharged her and took her home.

I just wish I could take better care of people. I hope my story makes sense.

I am also looking after people with Alzheimer's dementia. Does that disease affect breathing rapidly or can people develop other diseases like Atrial Fibrillation more often before Alzheimer's Dementia complications occur?

If anyone would like to shine some on these subjects, I would greatly appreciate the help.

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Specializes in LTC, Memory loss, PDN.

please don't say "we never gave her her medication when she returned from the hospital"

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Specializes in Pediatric and Geriatric.

We probably did give them I just don't remember.

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Specializes in ICU, CM, Geriatrics, Management.

K -- Continue being curious and strive to learn more and more from your residents and their various conditions.

Get into it... look up and research items of special interest.

Over time you'll become so much better.

Good luck!

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usually if there is a stent placed in, the patient would have to be on blood thinners, Plavix is a popular med that I have seen given to patients with stents. they give them because the stent itself can causes clot formation (and cause heart attacks and strokes), and they usually also give them with aspirin as well.

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