remember when....?

I remember when we did not use glucometers to dose insulin. We used urine tests- you had to add chemicals to a freshly voided urine sample and then match the resulting colour to a chart to determine the sugar level. I remember standing there as a student, trying to match up the colour of the urine in the test tube - was it this one? or this one?

...doing dressings with 1/4 strength Dakin's solution and sometimes diluted betadine.

Painting bedsores with MOM and then applying a heat lamp

One of my nursing instructors told me a story about how they used to use red rubber catheters chilled in ice water for NG tubes

I remember as a student when Galbladders and appendectomies stayed in the hospital for 3 weeks- nothing to eat for days, foley's for at least a week. Do we still 're feed' patients thier bile? bili bags, never wore gloves(yuk), mixing(reconstituting from powder) all my own antibiotics and putting them into 'solusets" hourly outputs included-"dropping" the hourly rate of fluid into a soluset chamber every hour, glass TPN bottles, Hepatitis patients were in strick isolation- door closed, nurse covered head to toe(booties on our shoes). Weren't the red rubber NG tubes called cantor tubes and about 3 miles long with a bladder at the end where the physican injected mercury? Pateints were admitted for "GI work-ups" BE's, barium swallows and colonoscopies and EGD's.

IV of alcohol to stop preterm labor!

No internet. We did the crossword puzzles in the newspaper on really slow nights.

IV of alcohol to stop preterm labor!

When you say alcohol, what kind of alcohol are we talking about here???

EtOH - the drinking kind!

EtOH - the drinking kind!

Wow! Did it work?

Wow! Did it work?

Still do it for antifreeze ingestion !