rebelccrn

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1. Why Dopamine and not Levophed for head injury pts?

   rebelccrn replied to jensfbay's topic in Critical Care

   I would have to disagree with the statement that in all trauma pt's we should assume that they have cardiogenic shock. Unless with direct coronary injury, there should be no form of cardiogenic shock....

2. Blood Stream Infections (BSI) in your unit

   rebelccrn replied to traumasurgRN's topic in Critical Care

   My SICU has had 2 CLABSIs in the past 12 months and both have been traced back to insertion. We implement Curos caps and Bio-patch dressings. We use sterile technique when changing the dressings....

3. Why did you chose TICU over other ICU's?

   rebelccrn replied to Wolf at the Door's topic in Critical Care

   I chose the SICU I work in after working in a general, small-town ICU for a year. I have since been working in the SICU for 2 years and have fell in love with Surgery/Trauma. #1: patient outcomes. To...

4. EPIC Computer Charting

   rebelccrn posted a topic in MICU, SICU

   Hello everyone! I'm a CCRN and I currently work in an SICU in a teaching hospital in my state. Starting on June 1st, our facilty will be going to be transitioning to the Epic computer system...

5. The next pressor...

   rebelccrn replied to MLB55's topic in MICU, SICU

   I work primarily in the SICU at my hospital and for trauma/surgery patients we usually start Levophed, then Vasopressin, and then Epi infusion. this is as far as we go as well, i've gotten overflow...

6. FFP off the pump?

   rebelccrn replied to chris_mnd's topic in MICU, SICU

   Coming from an SICU where everything we give as far as blood products; PRBCs, FFP, and plasma, are all free-flowing. The only reason i've ever heard of putting blood on a pump was my previous...