For all us ancient ones, how about remembering an oldie - aramine IV drip!
Was watching an oldie TV channel and Dragnet, Squad 51 (can't remember the real name, but it was with firemen/paramedics Gage & Desoto) and then Emergency came on. Some snakebite pt had bottomed out and was in the ER. All nurse Dixie McCall was doing was taking a manual blood pressure, handing the docs meds (that docs administered) and making phone calls.
No specific directions; just "an aramine drip".
I got the biggest kick watching the nurses walking around in their white uniform dresses and their white heeled shoes (beige pantyhose) and wearing their caps. (I am an antique nurse who loves nursing caps!).
So for you all you nurses out there, what are some of the obscure and oft forgotten meds that we all used to use at some time can you name???
Aramine precipitated this thread, but I also offer that oldie, aldomet. Any others???
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Now you're just making words up, aren't you?
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Can anyone find a picture of what old IV supplies looked like wayyy back in the day? I know what the glass bottles loooked like but I don't know what I'm looking for when I searched antique IV supplies, I.e. angiocaths before they had plastic ones and old IV tubing. Thanks in advance!
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Holy moley that first one looks so foreign! The second one looks similar to a spinal needle. Thank you for looking, all I could find was pictures of the old glass bottles and more modern angiocaths.
Another question (sorry, this stuff is so intriguing to me), have they always had foleys or did they just measure by what was voided in the bedpan/urinal?
Am resurrecting the thread again. Just remembered old aldomet. Most hypertensive pts were on it, esp the dialysis ones. Men hated the drug because of its side effect of ED/impotency. Poor compliance with it.
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Am watching more of the old Emergency reruns lately. Saw the dark-haired guy go for a carotid pulse - grabbed for BOTH side at the same time.
I was yakking 'HIPAA HIPAA' at the TV as the staff was asking around and then discussing the rescue/status of a former EMT trainer who coded/died. It was such a blatant violation!
Nobody wears seatbelts and you notice how there's NEVER any traffic when the vehicles leave the firehouse?
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Anybody remember a doll (name???) who had a button on her abdomen that would control her hair growth? You could pull the hair long and then it could recoil short again.
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Went to pour a glass of juice and then I remembered it used to be a freebie as a sour crème container. My mom used to collect glasses that came as jelly jars and in soap suds boxes.
As a nurse who, back in the day, used to mix most of their own drips, I lament the loss of this skill among newer nurses. We used to mix our own insulin, levophed, vasopressin, and other drips right in the med room. I still do this occasionally in crashing patient emergencies. Usually get some comments from newer nurses who have always received every drip from pharmacy.
I very much sympathize with a previous poster who stated they had a hard time trusting the drips sent up from pharmacy. How can I know what's REALLY in this bag if I didn't mix it myself?
I also miss calculating my own cardiac indexes. Doing so what always very impressive to patient families. Gave them the feeling that I really knew what I was doing and that there was no need for them to spend the night, that I would take care of their loved one tonight.
I just mixed my own levophed drip last week for a code. When I worked in the neuro ICU we frequently mixed our own neosynepherine drips and magnesium sulfate IVPB's.
Nobody wears seatbelts and you notice how there's NEVER any traffic when the vehicles leave the firehouse?
***Yes! I always wonder why there is NO traffic!
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Anybody remember a doll (name???) who had a button on her abdomen that would control her hair growth? You could pull the hair long and then it could recoil short again.
***Chrissy and Velvet....Chrissy had red hair and Velvet was a platinum blonde. My sisters & I loved them!
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Went to pour a glass of juice and then I remembered it used to be a freebie as a sour crème container. My mom used to collect glasses that came as jelly jars and in soap suds boxes.
Just reminiscing...
***Remember the towels that were free in boxes of Breeze laundry detergent ? The size of the towel you got depended on the size of the box of detergent you bought. :)
BrandonLPN, LPN
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Now you're just making words up, aren't you?