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  1. If someone is able to perform plantar and dorsi flexion, is it safe to say they would have a pedal pulse? Is it possible to perform plantar/dorsi flexion and not have a pedal pulse?
  2. I didn't think it was likely, just trying to think of every possibility as to why the patient who arrested and subsequently intubated was only able to have a PO2 of 49, despite being on a PEEP of 12.
  3. How likely is it to puncture a lung by inserting an OG tube in an intubated patient?
  4. First and foremost, let the hate and anger go. Granted, I would be very jaded if I were in your situation. But in the final analysis, it's not going to solve or fix your problem and it's only going to drain you. Insead, understand that it is up to...
  5. I am trying to figure out how or why cardizem and even amio can cause a patient to go hypotensive. I know it causes vasodilaton, resutling in a drop in bp, but I would like to know how that occurs. Or if anyone could point me to a site or reference...
  6. One Year.... and I am still miserable

    Your life is going to move in the direction of your most dominant thougts. Like the poster above mentioned, you need to quite these inner voices. Start seeing yourself exceling and thriving in this field. You passed nursing school and you pas...
  7. I had a patient who came up from cath lab after having 2 stents placed to the circ and an IABP emergently placed (cath revelaed triple vessel disease). While in the field the patient went into pulseless VT three times, once in the cath lab and then ...