PICUisforcoolRNs

The reason I posed this question...... At shift change the other day - a kid was on epi (high dose) and the pump mysteriously malfunctioned. By the time someone ran into the room, pressures were already in the toilet! It was a joyous shift change... Just led me to wondering how other units worked :)

I also believe Hospital B would be best. As a student, I worked in a level one trauma PICU that did everything under the sun except lung transplants. I moved after graduation to another state. My current location does not have the same level of acuity and I miss it!

Any peds patients that require cardiac monitoring come to our PICU as well or (more rarely) the step down unit. The general peds floor will monitor oxygen saturation, but they have no central monitoring system. Side note: any kiddos on continuous albuterol for >4 hours equals PICU for us. Not for tachycardia, but to closely monitor their respiratory status

Hello PICU peeps! Here goes my first post on AN! When you have patients on high doses of pressors, do you have a secondary (I.e. back-up) pumps already programmed and ready to go in case of pump failure/issues with the primary pump? Thoughts?