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Hi all. "Bedside Emergencies" is up at http://www.icufaqs.org - initial reviews are pretty good. Enjoy.

We use propofol pretty regularly on my unit and (as far as I know) haven't had a case of propofol infusion syndrome. My question is, why do patients develop blue/green urine? I'm going to hop on uptodate and see what I can find out . . .

Hi ladies! I graduated from the UMass RN-BSN program this past May, although I did the program through UMass Amherst, not Boston. It went really well and really quickly! Feel free to PM me if you have any questions I could maybe help you with! -Ru

*waves* Hi! I'm in an online program right now actually through UMass Amherst. It's the best deal I could find, being a resident of Mass, it costs me roughly 10k total, and it's three semesters. I started this past June and I'm done this May (woot...

Hi guys! Wow, I feel like I found this thread just in time, lol! I have an application to American mobile that I've been filling out over the past couple of days, but all these comments are giving me serious pause. I'm a newbie nurse too (I've bee...

Hi all! I currently have an ADN, and my long term goal is to go to cRNA school. I've been told by several people that it doesn't matter where I get my BSN from, just so long as my grades are really good. I'm looking into a program at UMass Amherst...

Hi all - I have a friend here in Boston who is hoping to do a travel stint as an ICU RN in Australia. Any suggestions as to which hospitals she should ask for? Here the usual ICU assignment is one or two - is it the same down there? Thanks in advance...

I currently live in good ole massachusetts, but I've been recently considering to the Keene NH area (so damn cute up there). What does anybody hear about the Cheshire Medical Center that's in Keene? I know that they're affiliated with Dartmouth-Hit...

Just wanted to say hi and introduce myself. I'm a 21 year old new grad and I started work over at Milford Regional about two weeks ago and I'm having a great time. I was wondering however, if anybody has heard of Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, N...

Couple of studies I've seen reported, one from Israel, all with significant improvements on the HAM-D thing. I was impressed enough to try it, and I was surprised that it seemed to actually work. One guy at Harvard named Andrew Stoll has gone commerc...

Hello sister nurses. Let me recommend the "psychopharmacology tips" website to y'all. Once there, take a look at the Psycho-Babble bulletin board. Here's a link: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/ - just scroll down to find the discussion. Lots of intere...

I wouldn't even consider it - we give our RN orientees three months, sometimes extended to four. In the meantime, may I respectfully suggest: http://www.icufaqs.org? Entirely free. And worth the price!

Hello all. A new file: "Labs", is up on the micu faq site at http://www.icufaqs.org. Let us know what you think. All the best.

Hello all. We've been receiving some interest in having the FAQs (http://www.icufaqs.org) put together in book form, and after some looking around we've learned a bit about "print-on-demand". This seems pretty simple - a person would click on a websi...

Hello all. We've been receiving some interest in having the FAQs (http://www.icufaqs.org) put together in book form, and after some looking around we've learned a bit about "print-on-demand". This seems pretty simple - a person would click on a websi...

Hi all. "Bedside Emergencies" is up at http://www.icufaqs.org - initial reviews are pretty good. Enjoy.

Hi all - "Bedside Emergencies" is up at http://www.icufaqs.org - initial reviews are pretty positive. Enjoy.

Okay, somebody tell me why we don't give patients alcohol when they come in developing DTs? Why are ER patients forced through the benzo thing when (it seems) a bit of ETOH would stabilize them right away, allowing them to ship to detox in stable con...

Hi all - a new file is up on the MICU FAQ website at http://www.icufaqs.org - this time the topic is "Med Tips" - a collection of observations and experiences with a variety of meds that we use a lot in the unit. Please feel free to send in comments ...

Hi there. IMHO, the paralytic ileus business is usually due to the opiate drips that get used along with the paralytic. Lately I've been hearing about using doses of neostigmine to make the ileus go away, but I dunno if it works. We routinely start p...

Hi all. Our local-area radio communication system died. Anybody work with anything like this that could replace it? It was a system of walkie-talkies that clipped to the belt, with a lapel mike, and you could call for help from way down the hall, etc...

Hello all. A quick message to say that a new file will soon be up on the MICU FAQ file site, at http://www.icufaqs.org - this time the subject will be "Drug Tips" - not a reference, but a collection of opinions, advice and experiences about many comm...

. . was to buy a Brita water bottle. Eight bucks at CVS and I can put the grossest tasting school water bubbler water in there and it takes just fine! Not to sound just like a commercial, but I spent so much money on bottled water, it was just ridi...

Hey guys, great idea for a thread. I'm at a community college in a rich-as-you-can-believe neighborhood in Massachustetts (which has it's own irony all in itself), but I'm 19, two years out of college, and in my second semester in an ADN program. I...

Second semester of an ADN program and feeling like I made the right decision more and more as the days go on . . .