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  1. Anyone Familiar W/new Double Balloon Endoscopy??

    CrohnieToo replied to CrohnieToo's topic in Gastroenterology

    I know, I am too. Just talked to my gastro about it yesterday. One of the ways that God managed for us to carry some 20 feet of small intestine and some 5 feet of colon in our abdomen is by creating...

  2. Video Taping Colonoscopies ???

    CrohnieToo replied to CrohnieToo's topic in Gastroenterology

    Thank you, Loz. Our hospital is just now progressing to DVD/CDs in radiology but not to Endoscopy

  3. Average doseage of conscious sedation while doing endoscopy's

    CrohnieToo replied to lmbv55's topic in Gastroenterology

    Yes, it can be done. It is best done w/some form of analgesia. I have my scopes (at my insistence) with just Demerol and occasionally a little phenergan when we get to the proximal transverse...

  4. arterial blood gas

    CrohnieToo replied to moonbeamsmom's topic in Pulmonary

    There's a lot to be said for ignorance is bliss. I've only had one ABG, it felt no different than a blood draw (which I have to have done every 3 months). Now that I've heard so many say that the ABG...

  5. Reason for Lab Value???

    CrohnieToo replied to HillNPStudent's topic in Gastroenterology

    is an excellent URL for garnering information on various lab tests. ALT levels are usually considered in relation to a couple of other blood tests and seldom considered alone unless the level is...

  6. Question re Post-Op Amnesia

    CrohnieToo replied to Homesick Gypsy's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    How did you get pictures of your surgery? Do they often or usually take pictures during surgery? Your learning at the last minute that you could not have the regional and would have general is just...

  7. Analgesia with IV Start

    CrohnieToo replied to ogrern2002's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    As a patient I would prefer that the choice of a local prior to IV set be left up to the patient. I, for one, MUCH PREFER NOT to have a local prior to an IV set. Yet I have friends who find blood...

  8. No More Demerol IV Push???

    CrohnieToo replied to VickyRN's topic in Emergency

    I have lived with Crohn's disease for 30 years. It is a struggle to achieve symptomatic remission much less true remission for any length of time. Crohn's can occur along the GI tract anywhere from...

  9. I was horrified today!!!!

    CrohnieToo replied to nursejennie76's topic in Emergency

    I certainly hope that this poor young man was admitted to your hospital and that an abuse/neglect report was filed against the ECF or at least the proper authorities notified. I would also hope that...

  10. No More Demerol IV Push???

    CrohnieToo replied to VickyRN's topic in Emergency

    I have Crohn's disease. Back in the 70's I thanked God for Demerol in ER many times. Twice in the last 2 years I've ended up in ER. Once I was given morphine and promptly vomited and went into dry...

  11. Tiny Black or Dark Brown Flecks in Sputum

    CrohnieToo posted a topic in Pulmonary

    I have COPD. I used to cough often and easily brought up phlegm. My family doctor scripted Spiriva and immediately the coughing stopped and the few times I do cough I don't bring up phlegm. What I did...

  12. Tiny Black or Dark Brown Flecks in Sputum

    CrohnieToo replied to CrohnieToo's topic in Pulmonary

    Thank you, Suzanne. I didn't mean to intrude. If you read my post I had already contacted my doctor. I was just curious as to what this could be since my doctor didn't consider it to be a concern but...

  13. Complications from colonoscopy or diverticulosis?

    CrohnieToo replied to thlnc's topic in Gastroenterology

    Was she enduring pain prior to the prep and colonoscopy? You mention "increased pain" after the colonoscopy. Was any previous pain increased during the prep for the scope? Could there have been a...

  14. Newbie Question about "Blown Veins"

    CrohnieToo replied to jsinr's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    Unless you've really blown that BP cuff up it isn't as tight as a turniquet. As a patient I can tell you that most of you get carried away and tie that turniquet WAY TOO TIGHT! By the time the...

  15. IV Phenergan and Toradol "Push"

    CrohnieToo replied to CrohnieToo's topic in Emergency

    Well, I am happy to report that the warfarin does seem to be doing its job. The three areas of scleritis have just about disappeared and can barely be palpated. The superficial clot at the wrist that...

  16. No More Demerol IV Push???

    CrohnieToo replied to VickyRN's topic in Emergency

    The problem with propofol is that our Endo department requires an anesthesiologist (or maybe it is a Michigan thing) to administer it rather than a nurse anesthetist. I've had it once. It was great as...

  17. physician abuse in PACU

    CrohnieToo replied to lulu220's topic in PACU

    I didn't realize that nurses had to put up with such abuse by surgeons. Heck, years ago when I was desperate for work I wouldn't work in a bar where management wouldn't support their waitresses!!! My...

  18. No More Demerol IV Push???

    CrohnieToo replied to VickyRN's topic in Emergency

    Goshes, our hospital outpatient Endoscopy department still uses Versed for amnesia and demerol for analgesia and phenergan, if needed, for nausea, all of them PIV. Since I get agitated and hostile on...

  19. IV Phenergan and Toradol "Push"

    CrohnieToo replied to CrohnieToo's topic in Emergency

    By the way, I do so want to thank each and everyone of you for your replies to this thread. I so very much appreciate them. And I appreciate that I was allowed to post my experience and questions...

  20. IV Phenergan and Toradol "Push"

    CrohnieToo replied to CrohnieToo's topic in Emergency

    I'm sorry your son also has Crohn's. I hope it is mild and he is doing well with it! I was pleased, the Director of Pharmacy came to talk to me after I provided him with printouts of many of the...

  21. IV Phenergan and Toradol "Push"

    CrohnieToo replied to CrohnieToo's topic in Emergency

    Angie O'Plasty, RN said: Our policy is to dilute Phenergan as the others mentioned, but where I have a choice I'll start asking for Anzemet instead. But first I need to ask if you Crohn's patients...

  22. The people you meet.......

    CrohnieToo replied to Bolts's topic in Emergency

    I've gotta tell you: my husband spent 6 years in the Marine Corps, the bulk of it in the far East. He had plenty of "needles" during his career. (Thank goodness he never got any tatoos). But, give him...

  23. IV Phenergan and Toradol "Push"

    CrohnieToo replied to CrohnieToo's topic in Emergency

    Other than for surgery I've never been given anything for pain other than IV or IM demerol until just this past 12 months. I was given morphine for the first time in ER for the pain of what turned out...

  24. Abdominal pain is scaring me! Need advice please!

    CrohnieToo replied to krisssy's topic in Gastroenterology

    I"m not a nurse, just a patient, so I am going from memory of several abdominal and pelvic CT scans I've had for Crohn's disease of the small intestine. Generally you will be given two bottles of a...

  25. IV Phenergan and Toradol "Push"

    CrohnieToo replied to CrohnieToo's topic in Emergency

    Thank you, MATurner. I have no true idea if both were given in the same syringe or not. My memory says one syringe, one push, no flush, just the fluids coming down from further up the line, but I'm a...