It's that time of year again. "Are you gonna run for chief?"
After you get asked for the ninth time, you start to panic a little. You've debated with yourself, drafted a pros and cons list, yet feel just as lost as when you started. The time is ticking for you to make a decision. Well, are you going to do it?
On this next episode of "useful things that RN Minh taught me", let's go over some neat tricks to effectively using our patient monitors!
Anyways as many of our residents know, central lines placed in the emergency department are frequently changed shortly after transfer to the ICU out of concern that lines were not placed under sterile technique. Not an ideal situation, as repeat catheter placement results in additional risk and discomfort to the patient.
One question that has been visited before, but came up again on recent shifts -- the non-crashing angioedema patient i.e. they do not require intubation. Specifically, the question that came up was eloquently phrased as “Wait, TXA? FFP? Why do we do that again?” Today we’ll touch on angioedema in general but focus on the treatment of bradykinin-mediated angioedema.