Focker CRNA

I think I used THAM once in the ICU, not seen it used yet in my time as a CRNA. My understanding of THAM was that, like you said, it is like a bicarb gtt, but it doesn't metabolize back into CO2. If you give bicarb to anyone on an end tidal CO2 monit...

50" plasma, snowboard trip to Utah

Haha, I love your use of terminology redcell, I'm going to incorporate that into my practice (CRNAs love when you tell them that). But on a serious note, I didn't hear anything new about sugamadex, as far as I was hearing, it was doing great in tria...

I don't personally know of anyone who has failed after only 100 questions, but for sure it has happened, though I doubt its a common occurrence. I felt the same way you did after taking just a 100 questions, all my classmates I've talked to said the...

I just finished taking the CCNA examination after like two months of studying valley nonstop. It cut off at 100, so that should be a good thing. maybe:no: I am not going to get into specific questions because I would like them to not bar me for life,...

If you think all 81 chapters are pertinent, the only way you could break that much material down is to set a reading schedule over the next 2 months and stick with it. 2 months = 60 days = 1.3 chapters every single day. If you stick with it, only 1 o...

For me, the actual course itself wasn't much help, not really worth the cost. But the materials, sweat book and memory master, are definitely helpful. You could definitely get by without the class.

Haha, the interviews at case western for next year just got a little more interesting

Dude, you have a masters degree. I think that nullifies your undergrad grade struggles. It shows you've matured. If you do as well in the ABSN program that you get into as you did for your master's degree, you'll be golden.

I'd go ahead and take it, besides the fact that it can only help you get into anesthesia school, your current employer should pay for you to take it, and there may be a pay raise for completing it. Just study the questions from a review book and take...

I'm in the Duke program, maybe a typo or something, but at least one year of ICU experience is definitely required. I don't think a nurse anesthesia program exists that doesn't have that requirement.

I'm letting mine lapse, I don't see the point in keeping it

I know everyone else says you have to have it down before going to school, but I can tell you that I had minimal IV skills when I started CRNA school. Like a few other people have said, my ICU patients had central lines a lot of the time or they came...

They are pretty much the same test. I got almost the same score on both, though that is probably more coincidence than anything else since I took them years apart, obviously.

How is it determined that a pt. has had awareness when they have no recall of it? Many of the accounts I hear from pts (a good example is the tkr in one of the above posts) are examples of awareness during a mac case, not general. That could be part...

It seems like you are comparing apples to oranges. How about a comparison for travel RN vs. travel CRNA (locum tenens). I think most responses you will get to your question will cite job fulfillment. Also, it would be tough to make a career out of t...

Theres a difference between being rude and having a discussion. Feel free to disagree with me and others and share your viewpoints, just try to have some tact.

I am entitled to my opinion, this is a discussion board. Save your grammar corrections and admonitions for someplace else.

what kind of surgery was it? what kind of anesthesia did he have?

Thanks for the extra info. With all the backup of supervisors, etc. it sounds like you were technically ok to withhold the drug. But I still agree with the doctor. Personally, if I were that man, I would want the morphine given to me, in fact, in sit...

Did the family request it? If the family feels like the pt. is in pain, or if there is any doubt about the comfort of the patient, I don't see how any harm could result from making your best effort to make the pt. comfortable as they die. I probably ...

Hey deepz, not that I disagree with you or anything, but quoting a twenty year old study isn't the greatest support for your argument. Do you know of any more recent statistics? I'm curious what the ratios really are.

pulsus paradoxus? Never heard of it referred to as the arterial cascade pattern though.

Agreed, the Zebra F-301 is the best pen. I only use the zebra now. It has fine point, the ink always flows smoothly, no smudges, metal clip so I don't break it (which always happens with the plastic ones), retractable so no caps to keep track of, ref...

I don't know, I think I can sympathize with you Anesthetize. I have a feeling I know what kind of tests/teaching you are dealing with, it can be very frustrating. Poorly written questions just don't do anyone any good, most of the time you just have ...