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  1. Here's what AAs really think of CRNAs

    rn29306 replied to Athlein1's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Feeling kind of wishy-washy huh Nitecap? First you are all gung ho as demonstrated by your first post on page two. https://allnurses.com/forums/f16/question-about-aas-148907-2.html Now you are saying...

  2. Valsalva maneuver

    rn29306 replied to rn4cicu's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Ever wonder why your obese or maybe not-so-obese patients, particulary your GYN or abdominal patients are hypoxic after being in Tberg with abdominal insulflation? Good ole atelectasis. Most of these...

  3. Here's what AAs really think of CRNAs

    rn29306 replied to Athlein1's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    You can't pull that crap the day of surgery. Their answer to "you'll have a problem" - not having surgery. Take it or leave

  4. CRNA's or Students in Northeast Tennessee

    rn29306 replied to TexasCCRN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Hey hey, easy there. Southeast TN here. Sorry I can't help you out on the origional

  5. Miller vs Mac Contraversey!

    rn29306 replied to MmacFN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    The black and white was around 8K as of last year. The big improvement is the color monitor GS for 10K. Little extra money goes a LONG way. The B&W is good for seeing basic structures, but the...

  6. What are your percieved obstacles in the CRNA Profession?

    rn29306 replied to MmacFN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Not gonna happen. Annual state associational meeting last year in Nashville put on a very good graphical analysis of just there is no way this is going to happen, with the cornerstones of the...

  7. allnurses.com tshirt ideas?

    rn29306 replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Allnurses Anesthesia - Sleep With the

  8. Taking THE exam

    rn29306 replied to sonessrna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I would say you are pretty well prepared. Good luck on the

  9. Miller vs Mac Contraversey!

    rn29306 replied to MmacFN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Use MAC almost exclusively. The Miller partially obscures the view by nature of it directly lifiting the epiglottis, for me at least. Tongue control is obviously harder with the Miller. I guess it is...

  10. PDA tracking software

    rn29306 replied to aithug316's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Medatrax supplied the CD software when they visited us. It also shut down a brand new T3 Palm - that was the nicest one in 2004. So be careful. Two hard starts later I deleted it off the

  11. About the Gasses

    rn29306 replied to MmacFN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Airway cam is cool, but wait until you see a Glidescope in practice. Yahoo! it or search with Google. This is an AMAZING device, esp for teaching juniors to intubate. Instead of going in on the...

  12. About the Gasses

    rn29306 replied to MmacFN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    The fact that most numbers generated by the industry are complicated by hospitals having contracts with companies and therefore reduced rates for these items. For the record, we don't even have des...

  13. PDA tracking software

    rn29306 replied to aithug316's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Medatrax came to us. You have no idea of the amount of information you will be required to keep up with if you do not purchase this program. No one opted out in my program. They have a web-based...

  14. About the Gasses

    rn29306 replied to MmacFN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I made a post about this earlier, but sometimes things just don't seem as important when you look at the big picture, like Mike alluded to. Doing bilateral shattered femurs the other day and some...

  15. Maintaining a long distance relationship

    rn29306 replied to csojet's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I for one encourage you to make this work if indeed you feel in your heart this is what is right. Be careful of the situations you get yourself into once school

  16. mixing meds?

    rn29306 replied to EmeraldNYL's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Surely you understand the issue of synergism. Less total propofol and less total ketamine. Reap the benefits of both. A little story to bust your above quote. At our facility we do GI cases in the...

  17. mixing meds?

    rn29306 replied to EmeraldNYL's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Are you going to avoid isoflurane on every heart due to the theoretical potential for coronary steal? Are you going to avoid sevo like M&M recommends on any patient with renal disease? No. Like I...

  18. mixing meds?

    rn29306 replied to EmeraldNYL's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Each to his

  19. mixing meds?

    rn29306 replied to EmeraldNYL's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    OMG. White Lightning is awesome. 50mg Special K in 200 mg Prop. Before you knock it, you might try it

  20. The differences in RSI vs Gas

    rn29306 replied to MmacFN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I'll bite and ask the question that you hinted at.. What did you think CRNAs did? Compare that to what you saw CRNAs do and the OR environment during your shadowing. This should be

  21. The differences in RSI vs Gas

    rn29306 replied to MmacFN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Very good choices might I add, esp since the Handbook was my idea... Anesthesia Secrets is an excellent book. Good start. In my previous EMS gig there was a flight medic and flight RN hubby/wife team...

  22. The differences in RSI vs Gas

    rn29306 replied to MmacFN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    So give it up, what 3 books were

  23. The differences in RSI vs Gas

    rn29306 replied to MmacFN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Reasons for lidocaine: 1. to take the sting out of induction doses of propofol, esp in a hand or worse, wrist vein. 2. blunt the ANS response to cold steel in da' mouf and shoving a garden hose thru...

  24. The differences in RSI vs Gas

    rn29306 replied to MmacFN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Hey Mike. Overjoyed to see that you are doing the CRNA thing. As far as propofol as an induction agent, I would say that we use it about 70% of the time where I am at - level one trauma center....

  25. Dr. EGER and his book/dvd on the pharmacology of inhaled anesthetics.

    rn29306 replied to SigmaSRNA's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    desflurane = deathflurane On a serious note, i really can't stand the stuff. Others swear by it. In talking with CRNAs about this gas, it's mostly an immediate hate thing (perhaps that's me right now)...