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  1. IABP Removal

    cardiorn04 replied to BJRN76's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    At my hospital, the MD pulls the IAB and we use the FemoStop. We then treat it as a usual sheath removal (FemoStop on for about an hour, then wedge pressure dressing on for 6 hours). There are many...

  2. Any good review test for csc?

    cardiorn04 replied to kmihaek's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I bought the CSC study disc from AACN. It was review of hemodynamics, etc--not as helpful as I would have liked. I went through the blueprint as a studyguide and used Carol Jacobson's book...

  3. Optilink

    cardiorn04 replied to InfoRN's topic in Nurse Management

    We have used Optilink (PCSS) for several years. What we have found out is that it doesn't weight critical care patients appropriately. For example, one night, we had 2 patients (each with CRRT &...

  4. Blake CT with JP

    cardiorn04 posted a topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    We just hired a new cardiac surgeon and he has been attaching a JP bulb to the mediastinal CT before transferring patients to the step-down unit. The reasoning is that patients can be more ambulatory...

  5. Blake CT with JP

    cardiorn04 replied to cardiorn04's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I understand that is is so much better for the patient in terms of ambulating, etc. Is there any research out there that we can cite for our

  6. IV Methylene blue post OHS vasoplegia

    cardiorn04 replied to RN12345656's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    We just used this on a patient the other night. And sure enough, we went way down on the pressors fairly quickly. Does anyone have a policy/protocol for given methylene

  7. chest tube removal

    cardiorn04 replied to corkyrn's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    At my hospital, we have a policy that RNs may pull mediastnal CT only. However, the surgeon or the PA usually end up pulling the mediastinal and pleural CTs at the same time. I have only pulled 3...

  8. Do your charge nurses have assignments?

    cardiorn04 replied to nrsang97's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    For almost a year, we did not take patients (unless we were really short-staffed). It was nice to be able to mentor the new grads and help out as needed. We also have a checklist of multiple tasks to...

  9. Staffing Ratio for VAD Patients

    cardiorn04 posted a topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    :prdnrs: I'm curious as to how other facilities are staffing their VAD patients. We use the Abiomed AB5000. We have not done very many VADs, so we currently staff them 2:1. With our last one, we felt...