Our Hospital just purchased a 64 CT machine and DI nurses will be responsible for administering Iv medications to decrease HR during the procedure. Does anyone have guidelines that they have been...
I am currently an RN in Diagnostic Imaging and I love it. I worked CCU and ER for years and have been in DI for one year and I can't imagine going back to the floor or ER. In DI at my hospital we...
We leave the decision to give vit k up to the ordering Dr. and or cardiologist. Basically we are saying this is where we need their INR to be to do the procedure. How do you want to proceed. I have...
In our DI department we do the procedures that you mentioned above and I'd be glad to share our protocols with you. For all outpatient interventional procedures ASA is to be held for 7 days, plavix...
I would feel much better if the HR required was 50 as it is with your card we had heard that the preferred rate was 32 and this had us a little nervous due to the fact that our 64 machine is across...
I am a DI nurse in Florida. There are five nurses in our Radiology Dept. all of whom insert Picc lines. We use the Modified Seldinger technique. Our PICC lines are placed without a Radiologist...