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    Agonal breathing

    GilaRRT replied to nurse4theKing's topic in General Nursing

    No problem, I thought you may have been replying to somebody else. That makes
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    Agonal breathing

    GilaRRT replied to nurse4theKing's topic in General Nursing

    Attention to detail? Perhaps you need to reread my posts, I'm not the one making a big deal about the CPR response. It was an innocent enough question unrelated to the OP that ruffled somebodies...
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    Agonal breathing

    GilaRRT replied to nurse4theKing's topic in General Nursing

    I think you can select my name and search my recent posts. I believe the name of the thread is "respiratory
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    Agonal breathing

    GilaRRT replied to nurse4theKing's topic in General Nursing

    If the patient was really hypoventilating, I would find the presence of a respiratory alkalosis very unusual. Perhaps this patient had a breathing pattern that was mistaken for agonal
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    Agonal breathing

    GilaRRT replied to nurse4theKing's topic in General Nursing

    Ventilation and oxygenation are two different concepts. Hold your breath, you are not ventilating, but you are oxygenating just fine. I just left a thread where we are talking about this very subject....
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    NRB & COPD your input please

    GilaRRT replied to crb613's topic in Emergency

    Your description of the "hypoxic drive" is just the thing many of us are discussing. As I stated, the hypoxic drive is overblown to the point that it's a scarecrow. The description of the hypoxic...
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    Chest tube help

    GilaRRT replied to RNLola035's topic in General Nursing

    We just started flying patients with dry seal devices over the past year or so. Absolutely love
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    respiratory arrest

    GilaRRT replied to krissy29RN's topic in General Nursing

    No problem. I am not aware of this thirty minute reserve concept. Perhaps something done during cardiac arrest research? I do know there is a push to look at the damage oxygen produces. In fact, it...
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    A & P question

    GilaRRT replied to CAT-CNA's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    To clarify a point. Sodium and potassium are both alkali earth metals with relatively low electronegativity. Hence the fact that they loose and electron to meet their octet within our body. This is...
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    respiratory arrest

    GilaRRT replied to krissy29RN's topic in General Nursing

    http://journals.lww.com/em-news/_layouts/oaks.journals/ImageView.aspx?k=em-news:2006:08000:00024&i=FFU2 Wolters Kluwer Health It's clearly possible for normal patients to go up to eight minutes,...
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    respiratory arrest

    GilaRRT replied to krissy29RN's topic in General Nursing

    I would agree. I stated earlier that you in fact have a huge range in patients. I can bet that you have probably seen some of the data and charts that compare desaturation time in certain patients....
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    respiratory arrest

    GilaRRT replied to krissy29RN's topic in General Nursing

    Free divers do it all the
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    A & P question

    GilaRRT replied to CAT-CNA's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Disagree. I would say you will need to have a more in-depth understanding of said concepts as a medical student however. I would disagree with the chemical comment somewhat as well. Ultimately,...
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    respiratory arrest

    GilaRRT replied to krissy29RN's topic in General Nursing

    You can easily find this information with a basic google search. This is also taught around the country at various airway management courses. You can even find cool graphs and so on where you have a...
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    respiratory arrest

    GilaRRT replied to krissy29RN's topic in General Nursing

    Regardless, if I appreciate a pulse, no compressions. Not breathing normally is too much of a grey area for me. I understand there may be special situations; however, "isolated" respiratory arrest is...
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    respiratory arrest

    GilaRRT replied to krissy29RN's topic in General Nursing

    You do not perform CPR on a patient with isolated respiratory
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    NRB & COPD your input please

    GilaRRT replied to crb613's topic in Emergency

    Sorry all, this hypoxic drive theory is a scarecrow that nursing instructors use to frighten their students. If somebody needs oxygen, give them oxygen. With the ABG stated, this patient is in failure...
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    Teaching w/o a MSN in nursing education...

    GilaRRT replied to StephRN08's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    All of my nursing instructors had their MSN in a non-education specialty, with the exception of the programme director. So, yes, you absolutely can
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    Teaching w/o a MSN in nursing education...

    GilaRRT replied to StephRN08's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I teach for a college based paramedic programme; however, the nursing programmes have no interest in instructors without upper level nursing
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    I want the answer

    GilaRRT replied to pansyrose's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Agree, this is reasonably good English and devoid of the all so common "OMG'"s, "like gawd's" and other slang phrases that are commonly used by native English
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    offended....

    GilaRRT replied to 1louise1's topic in General Nursing

    Did you get one for said physician? If you did, then you are reinforcing this behaviour. We often allow this to occur and in essence train people to act like
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    Nitro drips

    GilaRRT replied to MassED's topic in Emergency

    I mix 25 mg in 250 ml. I run in mcg/min. With said concentration, 5 mcg/min is 3 ml/hour. I titrate in 5-10 mcg/min increments until reaching desired effect or I start looking at other options. I've...
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    respiratory therapist versus licensed practical nurses (LPN)

    GilaRRT replied to mashamontago's topic in Nursing Career

    Yes, in my area of the world, there is about a 1-3 dollar an hour Delta in wages between RN's and RRT's. Also remember, there is another level of RCP called a CRT. The CRT is the respiratory analog...
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    respiratory therapist versus licensed practical nurses (LPN)

    GilaRRT replied to mashamontago's topic in Nursing Career

    There are many older respiratory therapists out and about. You can expect to spend a fair amount of time on your feet; however, the brute force activities like lifting and total care are not commonly...
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    Math- 1:1000 calculations

    GilaRRT replied to jbee's topic in General Nursing

    Remember it's all metric. 1:1,000 is 1 gram in 1,000 ml or 1 mg per