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The dreaded event happend today. I was prepping for a scheduled case today and observed the OR pharmacist scrambling around for bottles of Dantrolene. Being a glutton for punishment and an adrenaline junkie, I jumped right into this one. We ran to t...

How hard would it be for a CRNA to become a Flight Nurse? I have worked prehospital as an RN on a Critical Care ambulance that also responded to emergent calls, have CCEMT-P cert, and have the hospital reqs. Other than getting EMS certification as ei...

Very impressive.

Not that I was there, so don't kill the messenger. I've intubated several 400 'pounders using the Glidescope right off the bat, one of them was a post-op carotid rebleed. I felt in those couple certain circumstances that performing DL would have bee...

yeah that too. what i was told anyways. i see i stand corrected. seems to work in the drug induced haze of waking up, but i'll take note of the correction for future use.

I totally agree. Why would you want to compete with residents? Its just asking for trouble and mismanagement. You would serve yourself well during school and later on in life by going to a non-competition school. And before anyone blows up at me tha...

this phrase is accompanied best by a couple good chest rubs: resperdo perfundo means to breathe deep.

Do you dictate the adminstration of propofol? How are you administering the drug, ie: bolus to titration of effect or via pump at a specific mcg/kg/min?

Amidate or its other name etomidate. Any anesthesia reference will give you all you need to know.

Our EP lab, when doing implanted debifs, does their own sedation with EP RNs doing fent / versed CS and the surgeon uses liberal amounts of local in the pocket. For testing and sensing, they call us for the propofol administration and we set up shop...

I know mercer is incredibly competative. I also know the director there. He used to be our assistant director. Everything he has told me has been extremely promising about the program.

Common misnomer about egg allergies and propofol....People see that propofol is made "from eggs" and simply make their own assumptions without further investigating. Straight from Morgan and Mikhail: A history of egg allergy does not necessarily co...

You beat me to it. Very nice illustration of ICP and why ketamine was probably the WORST agent to use in this case.

Oh boy. Check this out. Seems the misunderstanding cowboys have gotten together, united, and formed a coalition of "just enough sedation" propofol providers and spewed forth some not exactly factual information. God help us. http://www.drnaps.org So...

Or perhaps a CRNA.

Take this for what it's worth. Ask around and see if the same thing is being reported. I guy in the class above me said there wasn't much of anything from Valley on the test when he took it last August. A friend of mine took the certification test th...

State boards can be fairly rough, but hospital credentialing agencies are TOUGH. Background investigation by credentialing boards of hospitals makes state board inquiries look like cake. Not saying you can't get credentialed, but you will have much...

Read post 95. I responded to it. How in the world are you going to pin bringing up abortion on me? Have you honesly read the previous posters or was it a knee-jerk reaction just because you didn't like my answer? Either way, really doen't matter to ...

Usually offset by an increase in LES tone. But hey, patients don't often play by the rules or read the same books we do. That'd be too easy - wouldn't it?

so what do you think you become as you exit your mother (whichever way you came out)? do you think this is like that board game where you stop at go, collect a soul, become a human, get your rear end slapped and booya - a live human being is born? ...

If the situation were where YOU are the parent and had a son or daughter molested by a sexual predator or say your mother/father/significant other was murdered by some crackhead for $20 I can promise you that the above statement wouldn't be your resp...

Time of death is noted for the time at which the MD at the bedside in the ICU completed all brain death trials and subsequent patient failing all the accepted trials. Find the death certificate on these guys after the harvest and you will notice the...

A much better book, similar weight, size and more informative is Handbook of Anesthesiology. Amazon.com has it for less than 20 bucks. Imagine the Mass book condensed... Handbook of Anesthesiology Mark R. Ezekiel MD Current Clinical Strategies Publis...

I for one have never heard of this and for the life of me can't figure out how 20 mg of anectine is honestly going to make that much difference in LMA insertion. The risk / benefit in this situation doesn't add up. It seems as if you are entertaining...

very nice. :rotfl: