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  1. back pain

    dsherman replied to dsherman's topic in Emergency

    I agree but she comes in after the injections due to breakthrough pain. I am wondering if I should refer her to someone else I wrote her an rx for diclofenac to help with her pain and she seemed...

  2. back pain

    dsherman replied to dsherman's topic in Emergency

    the patient goes to pain management weekly for epidural injections. pt. refuses narcotics as pt. does not want to get

  3. Conscious sedation in the ER

    dsherman replied to merilynRN's topic in Emergency

    propofol must be pushed by provider in most facilities due to serious side effects. same with

  4. pica

    dsherman replied to dsherman's topic in Emergency

    wow lol the patient ate the soft restraints wow. I have never heard that one

  5. pica

    dsherman replied to dsherman's topic in Emergency

    I myself have seen that show and to post #3 I am well of aware of pica and it is a eating disorder. It is crazy some of the stuff people eat. I agree they are

  6. How does your ED treat chest pain?

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  7. what is an appropriate migraine treatment

    dsherman replied to dsherman's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    thanks

  8. How does your ED treat chest pain?

    dsherman replied to dsherman's topic in Emergency

    from a bedside

  9. How does your ED treat chest pain?

    dsherman replied to dsherman's topic in Emergency

    we do not get a large number of frequent flyers where I practice due to the fact they don't want to wait 4 hours to be seen so they got to neighboring hospitals usually. we have very few frequent...

  10. Pull until full triage

    dsherman replied to Mirnew's topic in Emergency

    we have 3triage bays in which a doc or nurse practitioner order tests meds,etc and then the patient goes to a

  11. pica

    dsherman replied to dsherman's topic in Emergency

    It does not make sense to me why someone would want to eat metal and risk killing themselves, they are at risk for infection and much

  12. How does your ED treat chest pain?

    dsherman replied to dsherman's topic in Emergency

    As far as fall risk we use precautions we put be rails up give the patient A urinal or rarely a foley catheter and a call light and if they need to get up we help

  13. Migraine treatment in er

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    BEnadryl help with nausea and if reglan or compazine are given it helps with the side effect in which the patient feels like they are crawling out of their

  14. How does your ED treat chest pain?

    dsherman replied to dsherman's topic in Emergency

    In the er I work we have a protocol in place to where we can initiate the morpHine or Dilaudid if necessary only have had to once because all docs were tied up but i am now an Arnp and I like to Hold...

  15. How does your ED treat chest pain?

    dsherman replied to dsherman's topic in Emergency

    Drug seeker get toradol but I work in a trauma center and we have press ganey on our ::: so most docs give narcs and feed their

  16. how does your er treat abdominal pain

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    we use dilaudid and Zofran but the pt isn't relieved we don't use toradol due to side

  17. Migraine treatment in er

    dsherman replied to dsherman's topic in Emergency

    Thanks

  18. how does your er treat abdominal pain

    dsherman replied to dsherman's topic in Emergency

    We only give ketorolac for kidney stones or drug seekers but our doctors usually go to hydromorphone

  19. how does your er treat abdominal pain

    dsherman replied to dsherman's topic in Emergency

    Thanks for the