At my hospital the cardiac surgeon or one of his PAs are also the one who pulls chest tubes. I have personally never done it nor have I been trained to remove chest
Where I work we have a new cardiologist who greatly decreases the length of downtime for pts. He only requires 3hrs bedrest post hemostasis even for pts on integrilin and reapro. We have not seen an...
Hi there, I'm an RN in a step-down telemetry unit. Our situation sounds a bit like yours only we do take patients on integrilin and reapro. We are 28 bed unit that takes mostly r/o MIs and any pt...