Hospital slut
I picked up a couple of evening shifts this week - the first long days I've done during the week this quarter! Going back to ortho was fun but dealing with adults again was hard! Handed over to me was awful stuff like blood transfusions... congestive heart failure.... liver failure... acute on chronic renal failure... I couldn't even remember how much lactulose to chart! Then I couldn't just figure out the dose of paracetamol by going 15mg/kg/dose... ARGH~ what's happened to my simple little kiddies with bronchiolitis!?!?!?Then I came across a needle phobic adult. Unfortunately on the adult wards you can't get a play therapist to come in and blow bubbles while the parents and nurses pin the patient down while he/she scrams in fear. One thing was the same though - the nurse had covered her in emla cream!! Anyway, In my true do-as-little-as-possible-when-on-call style, I just sited the expired luer and said it could stay in for another 24 hours.
posted by SpongeMike @ 12:38
7 Comments:
tsk tsk tsk
Hey~!
For da future anaethetist to be!
How can you give up on putting IVL in?~! - u need an access to inject those milky colour stuff in!
You should even aim for those 16G ones!!!!
And if u cant get them in peripherally... either go for external jugular or femoral~! OUCH!
tsk tsk tsk
Mike you da man!
May be you should say that luer can last for another 12 hours.. If u say 24 hours, you might have to do it the next shift!
Shameful conduct for a wannabe anaesthetist....You might have to bribe me bigtime not to let this incident be known to the interviewers when you apply for an anaesthetics job....Muhahaha
I am so hungry....
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