fairone

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1. Family visitation in ICU

   fairone replied to bfjworr's topic in MICU, SICU

   /start vent This topic has recently become an issue in our unit and can relate to each and every problem posted in this topic. Management recently decided that we were to abolish our current visiting...

2. Family visitation in ICU

   fairone replied to bfjworr's topic in General Nursing

   /start vent This topic has recently become an issue in our unit and can relate to each and every problem posted in this topic. Management recently decided that we were to abolish our current visiting...

3. Vent setting question

   fairone replied to memphispanda's topic in MICU, SICU

   Is this setting on a Siemens Servo vent? I'm not really familiar with it as we traded in our Servo's for Dragers a while back, but I found some info on 'automode' for the servo's - hope this helps....

4. Lowest Blood pH

   fairone replied to EricTAMUCC-BSN's topic in MICU, SICU

   I should be suprised, but I'm not. People try anything. I remember a mother once putting peas down her sons PEG

5. Lowest Blood pH

   fairone replied to EricTAMUCC-BSN's topic in MICU, SICU

   6.9 on a diabetic ketoacidosis pt...survived. I've never seen a pa02 less then 30 - 40 - I remember taking one somewhere in that range and concluding it must have been venous. Repeat taken.

6. Vent setting question

   fairone replied to memphispanda's topic in MICU, SICU

   Slope is the inspiratory rise time which basically controls the time it takes to reach the preset pressure or preset flow. (What I understand it as anyway..) A diagram shows it here:...