BigDaddy007

That's awesome info. The Edwards rep failed to mention the 15-minute delay... It's funny you say thermodilution with a saline flush is more accurate as one of our older docs swears by it yet none of the young docs have a problem with flotrac/hemosphere.

"but the online forums written by completely anonymous and unverified strangers said to level to the phlebostatic axis"

Hmmmm now you have me curious why hemospheres and ev1000's are hooked up to a swan vs an Aline... Does anyone know? Swan more accurate? More info? in our CVICU we use swans all the time. Nurses cant wedge even when a doc says to. The nurses are trained to say "look bro I cant wedge so you have to come in and do it yourself". I've been told that once you have your paop and it correlates to your pad you rarely have to rewedge just trend pad. I've rarely done ficks and thermodilution haha there was literally dust on our thermodilution equipment XD when I had to use it - and even then I only used it because a new doc put in the wrong type of swan for the EV1000. But yeah a lot of the ctsa pt's have one and a lot of the pump failure peeps. I guess my biggest question is there a time you cant use flotrac?

Hello everyone, I am looking for a good reference book or website that I can quickly look up diseases and surgeries I have never heard of and quickly know some common complications/what to look out for. My old med surg books from school are not great for this and uptodate can be a bit overbearing when I am tripled in the ICU as a new grad as is every other nurse! (no time to help me figure things out) I have felt a bit reckless when I come into work and have a very sick patient and no time to look into the type of surgery they had until 2-3 am when things mellow out. Any other advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hello, I believe I have found typos in my textbook. I am curious what y'all think? See the photos below. 1st typo: hypotonic dehydration is listed twice when the first one should be isotonic dehydration. 2nd typo: the text claims cap refill is less than two seconds but the table says it is over 2 seconds for dehydration. 3rd typo: text claims that the body stops the secretion of ADH to retain water in dehydration thanks - bigdaddy007