sproutsfriend replied to charles-thor's topic in CRNA
Agree completely, I loaded up my brain with so much info that it was clogged up and I had tremendous trouble critically thinking and that made it tough. The verdict is still out on my exam result.
Valley is INVALUABLE. I took the exam last week. Studying Valley for the past 3 months has made me much more knowledgeable about every aspect of physiology as well as anesthesia. Memory Master and Sweat book are excellent. However, now that I've t...
I agree, its the oxygen carrying capacity of the intravascular volume that we need to worry about. If we dilute the grams of hgb per deciliter down too much with excessive fluid administration our oxygen delivery will be insufficient to meet oxygen ...
sproutsfriend replied to confusionabounds's topic in CRNA
Neo could be a good choice but also look at the diastolic BP before giving an alpha 1 agonists such as neo because a beta blocked heart can go into failure if the SVR gets too high.
sproutsfriend replied to confusionabounds's topic in CRNA
The vent delivers positive pressure ventilation so the negative pressure you describe would not be present. I'd let the CO2 creep up to stimulate catecholamine release which should raise HR and increase SVR.
sproutsfriend replied to versatile_kat's topic in CRNA
I may be missing something here but the robotic prostatectomies I've done (as stated in an earlier reply) took only 2 hours and 15 minutes not 8 hours. 2:15 is shorter than 3-4 hours. Also, I'm not sure what if any advantages the robot has over the c...
sproutsfriend replied to versatile_kat's topic in CRNA
It is well worth it. I was at an institution in Bham Al. which was one of the first doing the davinci robotic procedure. They've now done over 500 cases. The patient has less pain, the average blood loss is 50 cc's compared to 2500 cc's and the pro...
sproutsfriend replied to forane2001's topic in CRNA
Unfortunately, it appears we'll need more than a few truthful threads to deflate his head. The greatest most respected leaders of all time lead by demonstrating servant leadership and respect for all those around them. The fact that the OR nurses ex...
sproutsfriend replied to Tony35NYC's topic in CRNA
The MDAs on the Student Doctor Net are providing the e-mail addresses of the Florida legislators hoping that their faithful will pressure them into passing the bill. Those idiots don't realize that many of us monitor their threads and will use the e...
I was 39 before I pursued CRNA school. And, there's an old ancient guy (Trauma Tom) in the class behind me. He has the inside scoop on geriatric anesthesia because he's of that age.
sproutsfriend replied to MrRacer98's topic in CRNA
In our profession political activisim is job security and is our duty. Very few professions are in the same dilemma as the CRNAs where political apathy can directly affect our profession. In most professions people can just go to work, do their job a...
sproutsfriend replied to CRNAMASTER's topic in CRNA
MedCalc has some excellent formulas and it's also free. Click on the link below which is a Florida State Med School site for Med students to link to free PDA medical software. Scroll down about half a page under the medical calculators section and ...
I wasn't aware that Joe had his PhD yet. He's still "Mr" Williams. Along those lines I'm not sure any of the current faculty at UAB have their doctorate yet. However, this should have zero influence on your decision.
sproutsfriend replied to Future SRNA's topic in CRNA
Yes, you're correct, great points. My comment was dealing with moving busy surgeon's with stacks of cases through OR suites in a timely manner. GETA is quicker in that regard.