Mimsy909

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1. Parental Obstruction of Care

   Mimsy909 posted a topic in PICU

   We are currently experiencing a most trying series of events in our unit and I would love to know if anyone else has experienced something similar and how your management supported you, your co-workers and/or the family. Briefly, and complying with H...

2. Pulmonary HTN

   Mimsy909 replied to Mimsy909's topic in NICU

   Thanks Steve, that info looks great. We've had success treating the critters with NO and Sildenafil (our attendings do not want us to use the name Viagra). Fortunately, no ECMO. Since we've had a few admissions for PPHN and the parents were not prepa...

3. Rapid Assessment Teams

   Mimsy909 replied to mark2climb's topic in PICU

   Our rapid assessment team is called the FAST team for First Assessment, Stabilization, Transport. The clinical educator and the transport nurse presented the development and concept of the team. They presented at a conference in Denver. Anyone see th...

4. Pulmonary HTN

   Mimsy909 posted a topic in NICU

   Recently we've seen an increase in NICU grads being admitted to our PICU after a short time at home. They are being diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension, something that's not mentioned to the parents as a potential complication of their prematurity ...

5. transpyloric placement

   Mimsy909 replied to picucrn's topic in PICU

   Thanks for clarifying. We have a neat little bedside u/s machine and the tubes are placed by our CNS under direct visualization and are cleared right after placement to use. This is new within the last 6 mos. for us and since the tubes do occassional...

6. transpyloric placement

   Mimsy909 replied to picucrn's topic in PICU

   What is a snap test for transpyloric tubes?

7. standard concentrations, does your facility use them ?

   Mimsy909 replied to climberrn's topic in PICU

   Within the last 5 years we went to standardized concentrations, eliminating the "rule of 6." Some of the reasons were cost conscious: all Dopamine comes in bags mixed off site (1600 mcg/cc and the lesser concentration which escapes my tired brain rig...

8. PICU Nurses

   Mimsy909 replied to biscuit_007's topic in PICU

   Hi all, happy to find this site. I've been an RN for 28 years, always pedi, and a PICU nurse for 24. I couln't imagine doing anything else, though I've tried! My unit is 16 beds, is multidisciplinary and affilitated with Brown Univ. medical school. W...