23AtTheTeeth

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  1. Struggling With the Magnitude of My Responsibilities.

    Well, it was a little more in depth than that... I asked if we could start dobutamine to help with her saggy indices and CO, but she said to try and go up on the milrinone from .375 to .5 first and...
  2. Hey, all. I am a Cardiothoracic ICU Nurse at a Level I Trauma Center that is also a major teaching hospital that serves 9 states in my Region. Needless to say, my unit is extremely busy, and we fly...
  3. CSICU vs Onc

    I started in a Level I Trauma Center CVICU at the end of last year, and it has proven to be the most challenging/rewarding thing I have ever done. I, too, transferred from a leadership, Charge Nurse...
  4. I don't know, I am not on board with "just giving the guy his coffee." If you were to give him his coffee and make him go over his restriction, you would be directly breaking a physician's order. I...
  5. Interesting Situation (Thoughts?)

    I can see your rationale behind not using CVP alone, but all of your other hemodynamic parameters seem to indicate that he was definitely fluid up as he was hypertensive, extremely high PA pressures...
  6. I'm having doubts about nursing... :(

    Honey, I am proud to say that you officially had your first #**** day! Some days, even as a Cardiothoracic ICU nurse, all I do is bed baths and linen changes after code brown after code brown. The key...