call the urology group and get an acute urinary retention tray down there............ ever see it done? EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not me looks painful as
I started in ER out of school. The first 3-4 months seemed overwhelming. After that the learning curve dropped a little bit at a time over the next two years. After 2 years I was completely...
CEN35 replied to Jennifer, RN's topic in Emergency
I work 2 jobs right now. ER and PACU - In the ER most docs I have met are always hesitant to give much more than 50-100 of Demerol much less anything else. I can tell you that, one patient will...
I can tell you from working in pacu, with adults it is horrendous to keep the patients tame afterwards. However, our peds ER uses it also. They come as suckers that the patient can suck on. They...
We do in PACU at times. Also I float to the pain center. They use it all the time for spinal blocks. Propophol is dose based, and wears off quickly. I believe you can only use it here, if the pt...
Not sure? Seen quite a few. The only thing I can say, is it seems like as time goes on and you see more, it isn't as bothersome. Although, every now and then there are certain situations that can...
Ours was doc dependant. 90% Compazine. If they are allergic to compazine (allegedly), Demerol vistaril. After CT Toradol. Always the variance of triptans and sometimes
Quanik - I didn't say you were downing the use of propophol. On your quote "Maybe age, weight, fluid status, circ time, biotransformation, metabloism and a few hundred other factors might play a...
True for all of the above. However, despite a hospital being a bussiness it needs to consider the staff and other issues. At the same time, I know they are being crunched by the insurance companies...
just for the record, patient response after propophol is no different than any other drug. It is based on the amount given. In reality, you can give someone 2 mg of versed IV, and have them become...
CEN35 replied to pikevillenursing21's topic in Emergency
I went to ER out of school. Despite the cries of my teachers "That's not real nursing", "You can't do that, you need experience", "they will never hire a new grad", blah, blah, blah. While when I...
Our ER is not allowed to use it, without an anesthesiologist present. So the ER docs would use versed and Demerol. Which I did not really like. To long to wear off and hit baseline. As an ER...