Calculating drops per minute was a math exercise to graduate. No one ever gave precise volumes or unit/time doses accurately using gravity flow. At the very best, the rate would change as the volume of fluid in the bag changed. At the end of the day ...
You're 80% sure you were with her when you pulled the fentanyl. How sure is she that she was there? It is an unusual thing to not remember what you were doing and with whom, especially if the event were very recent. Not saying that you're not sincere...
offlabel replied to Damon McGill's topic in Emergency
It isn't the size of the catheter, per se, it's the quality of vessel that people choose to cannulate with such a small IV catheter. They're friable, thin walled and very fragile. IOW's they blow very easily. If you're reduced to resorting to a 24 ga...
Was this not in NP training? This kind of plays into the arguments of physicians that accuse NP's of not having the expertise of discerning what, if any, diagnostic tests to order. Is there a fundamental systemic problem in NP preparation if folks ar...
Not enough information here. All ICU's are not the same. A cardiac ICU that only sees bread and butter, healthy cabg's and valves might be far less valuable than a neuro ICU at Emory. Compare patient population and acuity, not the ICU category.
