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  1. Bogus all around. Physostigmine is not indicated for reversal of NMB. Any chance you're thinking of pyridostigmine, which is a pretty old drug we used to use eons ago? And if you have "no solid...
  2. Yep, glad everyone is paying attention to and answering YOUR question. We used an anesthesia recordkeeping system several years ago - it was not ready for prime time then, but when it worked it was...
  3. BIS Monitor

    Thank you brother (or sister) - tell it like it
  4. BIS Monitor

    We don't use it because there's no proof it does what it purports to do. It's basically voodoo at the moment. Hey, you knew someone would say
  5. There are a lot of theories about blindness after surgery in the prone position (pressure on the eyes, low BP, etc.) but there don't appear to be enough common denominators in the cases that have been...
  6. Absolutely right on target. And Gypsy, sorry if you and your best friend the RN don't agree, but I think your anesthetist appears to have done exactly the things he/she was supposed to do. Your...
  7. Many patients will recieve something like midazolam in preop because of anxiety. It has an amnestic effect, but it is very short-lived. I would suggest that you were "in a fog" for several days...
  8. Just an old fart here - it's taken me a good while to feel comfortable with neo, but it works great, and as an expected bonus, has cut way down on those high heart rates from big doses of
  9. What was her pressure to start with? If they were fairly high with an acute drop, even though still in the 110's, I might think about a little phenylephrine. Also, with the SOB, I'd be thinking...
  10. fresh gas flow rates

    Here's an old trick. O2=100%, Air=20% (just to use a round number) O2 100 20 \ / 40 20:60 = 1:3 ratio of O2 to Air / \ AIR 20 60 Put your desired O2 %age in the middle Going diagonally, the difference...
  11. Epidural-induced Hypotension

    It ain't the
  12. The GlideScope is our hottest new toy. The view is amazing, even if it is a black and white screen. Use a stylet, always, and mold the curve to the blade of the GlideScope. At the distal end, curve...
  13. Ooops - davvid, ya walked right into that little Cook County trap... Sigma, although davvid2700 is a little over the top, you're both getting into that never-ending pi**ing match pretty quickly. As...
  14. Apnea and CO2 rise

    3mmHg per minute of
  15. and perhaps
  16. :chuckle and y'all think I'm
  17. first thought? with a ph of 7.0, selection of narcotics wouldn't be my biggest
  18. It doesn't matter if the cuff is "upside-down", nor does it matter where the tubing comes off. The transducer is inside the machine - the cuff and tubing merely transmit those oscillatory pressure...
  19. Never rip off the pilot balloon - use the
  20. DO's have 4 years of osteopathic medical school - they are considered the equivalent of MD's. APN's are not. Although their main focus is primary care, many now specialize, and if they do, they...
  21. Again - much or most of what you are doing falls well outside a paramedic's legal scope of practice. I don't believe for a second that ANY pharmacist would accept a prescription signed by Joe Blow,...
  22. Yep, there it is - I rest my
  23. If you read the post again, I stated "The responsibilities vary, but might include scheduling, daily assignments, interviewing, hiring and firing, budgeting..." I didn't mean to imply that I did all...