Pharmahaulic

Good evening, my professor said that most healthcare facilities have some sort of magnet either behind the nurses station or over the medication room door... she wanted me to look up the meaning of it for tomorrow but the only thing I can find is tha...

Oh possibly, what is the purpose of this?

I know there's a recommendation to not use for more than 48 hours at a time but many other people I know who work in ICU's and such said that they will use it for weeks at another. Also, other sources said it can be used for extended periods of time ...

If a dialysis catheter is inserted into a large vein like the superior vena cava, it obviously will have to travel through a smaller vein first such as the jugulag vein, so when it gets into the larger vein there will be extra space on the sides of t...

So how do they get more flow in the catheter?

And when the sensor goes off, it sucks more blood? What if s lot of blood sneaks by?

And what is this kind of cath used for? Does the cuff prevent all blood from.flowing by?

So it sucks the blood up as its flowing by? What if it doesn't suck enough of it up?

So how do they ensure that blood flows into the catheter and more of it doesn't flow around it?

Thank you for the reply... is there a guaranteed number of does that a person can be on propofol before propofol infusion syndrome sets in? In other words does its onset correlate with the amount of days used?

Anyone?

No agenda lol, just been reading how it is almost modern days idea of the "ideal anesthetic" minus a few shortcomings. I can find how long it can be administered for?

Anyone?

If there is a disorder or dysfunction in the electron transport chain or cellular respiration, does that automatically mean death?

Would hemoperfusion (or even hemodialysis or hemofiltration) work for an accidental Propofol overdose (hypothetical) or Benzo overdose? I ask because I know certain drugs arent able be removed through dialysis or whatever and I couldn't find any info...

How are protein bound toxins removed?

Well I ask because I know some meds or drugs because of their molecular propertis or not "dialyzable" and cannot be removed with dialysis.

Oh I see so propofol would already be totally metabolized and out of the system by the time they set the machine up?

Anyone else have any other experiences?

I know that with post operative nausea and vomiting, there are several factors that are ingolfed including, the type of surgery, length of surgery, intra operative opioid administration, volatile anesthetics, etc. But as far as IV induction agents/ s...

Do you really think that I havent tried that already?

So I obviously know that you use a lot of propofol for sedation in the ICU, and a lot of patient might need deep continuous sedation for extended periods of time depending on what's going on with them... I know that with propofol there's protocols an...

Oh yes, I forgot low BP could be a nausea and vomiting trigger.

Well yes, I am looking for person experiences as what you read online can often be conflicting. So what I was asking was (for those of you that use or previously used) barbiturate such as methohexital or sodium thiopental, if you found them to be cor...

Does precedex cause a lot of nause or vomiting as a side effect? Compared to other sedatives or anesthetics?