joybelle

I live & work in South Africa , & am currently looking for ideas to do a masters thesis on . I had thought on doing it on "The safety of patients whilst evacuating an ICU during an emergency situation." What evacuation plans are set in your...

We routinely remove IABP's in our unit . We first discontinue any heparine the pt might be on , we then do a activated clotting time & if this is less than 180sec the IABP is removed . Two people must be present & pressure is applied manually...

I work in a private hospital in South Africa . At night time we hardly ever have a dr. on call . If anything happens to pt. we have to phone the dr. in charge , who often lives up to 15min drive away from the hospital . If a pt. starts dev. resp prob...