We use citrate where I work. Much less issue of clotting. Our patients are 1:1. Most of our IABP patients are 1:1 also but some of that is due to not alot of staff trained and willing to care for...
How can she say discomfort does not equal pain?? What planet is she from? I have never seen an intubation in the ICU that got numbed. There is without adoubt pain, discomfort and anxiety. If it is not...