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/GiantFuckFace RN - PACU 🍕 Jan 06 '24

One thing that took me out of Breaking Bad for a second was when a doctor yelled “Let’s give him 2 grams of oxygen!”

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u/yellowlinedpaper RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 06 '24

I was watching ER back in the day. I heard ‘We’ve got third and fourth degree burns over here!’ I turned it off and never watched it again. I was sad.

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u/helikesart RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 06 '24

Aren’t fourth degree burns a thing though? Am I missing something?

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u/yellowlinedpaper RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 06 '24

lol, I just googled and it looks like it’s actually a thing along with 5th degree burns? All my years as an EMT/Nurse I have never heard of anything past 3. I remember (late 90s) in school they only went to third.

Maybe it’s a newer thing to classify?

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '24

No, I leaned about burn staging in NP school, which was 15 years ago. For what it’s worth.