r/nursing • u/KeepAwayTheNargles RN - PICU 🍕 • Jan 06 '24

Nursing Hacks I’m Watching House

…and he just said, “Get me 40mg of furosemide so I can intubate!” I know medical shows are notoriously inaccurate but that one felt especially ludicrous. I died. The patient did not.

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u/BigPotato-69 RN - ER 🍕 Jan 06 '24

Would there even be lung cells left after blasting peep 40 hahaha the barotrauma

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u/herpesderpesdoodoo RN - ED/ICU Jan 06 '24

“PC-SIMV, PS 5cmH20, FiO2 0.35, PEEP Yes”

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u/TehNosaj Jan 06 '24

As a Respiratory Therapist, I approve of these vent settings.

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u/ExhaustedGinger RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 06 '24

Tidal Volume: Also Yes.... Probably just an air leak.

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u/MartianCleric RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 06 '24

I choked on my water reading this

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u/WannaGoMimis BSN, RN, CPAN -- PACU Jan 06 '24

Sounds like a verbal order from one of those docs who makes clarification like pulling teeth and won't enter his own.

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u/LegendofPisoMojado Alphabet Soup. Jan 06 '24

Highest I ever saw sustained was 24. It did not end well, but it wasn’t because of the PEEP.

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u/phoenix762 retired RRT yay😂😁 Jan 06 '24

Eek. I think 20 was the highest for me, patient did not make it.

Don’t swallow your baggie of meth or coke or whatever crap to evade the police, folks…

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u/Less_Tea2063 RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 06 '24

20 was the highest for me too, during Covid. A hole was obviously made where a hole did not belong eventually, but we all knew the end we were rolling toward.

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u/miller94 RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 06 '24

We had a couple 26s during covid

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u/nurse_a RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 06 '24

My highest was 24 as well during Covid. Hope to never see that again.

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u/LegendofPisoMojado Alphabet Soup. Jan 07 '24

Mine was pre Covid. Tick bite.

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u/nurse_a RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 07 '24

😱

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '24

They've become a balloon and floated awaaaaayyyyy

(really justcgot the celestial discharge, but same diff)