Intubate Em!!!: July 2010

Thursday, July 1, 2010

I'm baaack

Okay, so I have been MIA for the past year. Lots in my personal life that I'm sure none of you really care about. Now that I am back to work in a completely new setting I have lots to blog about. Starting with this order of the day.....

CONTINUOUS PULSE OXIMETRY DUE TO MULTIPLE MEDS THAT COULD AFFECT RESPIRATIONS

Gotta love it!!!!

You know you're an RCP when

- "clubbing" no longer refers to the hitting up of the bar scene downtown
- you call someone "SOB" and are NOT calling them a son of a bitch
- you look at bigger people with no necks and think "man, they'd be a difficult intubation"
- SpO2, MDI, SOBOE, DPI, COPD, IPPB, FiO2 and R/A all mean something to you
- you DON'T encourage people to use cough medicines
- you measure the amount someone smokes in pack years
- you can hear the phrase "pulmonary toilet" and not laugh
- you know the alveolar air equation backwards and forwards, in your sleep
- you know that the "breathing tube" doesn't actually go down the "throat" per se
- "pink and frothy" no longer describes that strawberry shake you had for lunch
- "blue bloater/pink puffer" means something to you
- you realize people really have no clue how to use an Aerochamber
- you get paged to use a "vibrator" while at work, and it's perfectly acceptable and even requested by staff and patients - you can measure someone's RR just by walking by the patient
- you've been shot by an uncovered trach - you know there's an "H", a "G" and no "F" in phlegm
- you call it a "ventilator", not a "respirator"
- you measure things by color, consistancy and smell
- you know "BiPAP" doesn't involve a smear
- A/C no longer stands for "air-conditioning"
- you take the best damn care of any patient

Intubate Em!!!

Thursday, July 1, 2010

I'm baaack

You know you're an RCP when

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