tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423880838207203660.post772232473162448682..comments2024-01-10T09:56:49.324-05:00Comments on Respiratory Therapy Cave: Please help clue me inRick Freahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01132949384071592216noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423880838207203660.post-90799497796442205222010-06-07T06:33:17.810-04:002010-06-07T06:33:17.810-04:00I kept thinking about this and I think it's a ...I kept thinking about this and I think it's a good wakeup call for all of us reading it. The doctor obviously was looking at the numbers instead of looking at the patient. How many times do we do that? Well, alot, quite frankly. How many times do we get frantic calls from the floor from nurses panicked because their patients are satting in the 70's. We go up to find a normally breathing patient wondering what all the fuss is...and it's a sweaty probe or cold hands....It's a good lesson to remember that probes and numbers (first gas being 7.41) isn't the whole story, the numbers just hadn't caught up yet to the patient's real respiratory status as presented clinically. Treat the patient! We all heard it a million times in RT/RN/Med school.Glennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17528360147805366086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423880838207203660.post-12110316645094918262010-06-06T10:56:09.460-04:002010-06-06T10:56:09.460-04:00Albuterol turns around that CO2 ;)
Bipap smipap, ...Albuterol turns around that CO2 ;)<br /><br />Bipap smipap, It's I or E except after C and I don't know why we'd want to use it anyway, the patients on their way to meet the maker via a careless doctor's orders.Yo mama!https://www.blogger.com/profile/00949042100993878709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423880838207203660.post-53146724245794005322010-06-05T12:45:04.297-04:002010-06-05T12:45:04.297-04:00Yeah, I'm with you. I don't get it either....Yeah, I'm with you. I don't get it either. A couple of hours on the Bipap could have gotten the pt over the hump immediately. <br /><br />Yes, clearly the pt was a retainer but but a retainer in the 50's, not at 102...give me a break. <br /><br />That pt could have so easily have been better by morning had your suggestion been taken in the first place.Glennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17528360147805366086noreply@blogger.com