markjohnson

you're right it does look like that lol but i could just google it instead of coming here. ive been looking at a friends medical records and it says that D50 was given when his glucose reading was already 265mg/dL. i just wanted to get an exact answer from the medical professionals on this site as to why it would've been given and how much of an impact it would've caused if it was incorrectly administered.

D50 would cause an increase in ICP and shouldn't be administered in this case from my basic understanding. i just want to hear some ideas of why it wouldve been administered in the first place and how big of an impact on the ICP and overall outcome it couldve had on the patient

I'm not taking any test. I just want verification of what I've already come to understand about the topic

Patient is hypotensive and unconscious (GCS: 2T) with a suspected TBI. What are the advantages/disadvantages or reasonings for administering dextrose to this patient?

greetings all, i had a question about if anyone has every heard of a chest tube puncturing or lacerating a lung before. I ask this because a, now deceased, patient i knew personally went into Trauma after an MCA and a left side pneumothorax was recorded along with other traumatic injuries; a size 36 chest tube was inserted and 300mL of blood was obtained. In the final reports, it was said that the injury was a hemopneumothorax and that the patient was bleeding profusely out of it. Although hypotensive on arrival, he was deemed hemo-stable soon after but post chest tube insertion his vitals declined progressively.