Proceed with caution: Pumps

CAUTION Messing with a pump is an easy way to draw the ire of your nursing colleagues. There are ways to mess this up, and every change in rate needs to be charted. If you’re going to start a drip or change a drip rate, make sure you…

Pressure Transducer Setup

There are better tutorials on how to set up a pressure transduction line. This tutorial specifically addresses the equipment available in the resuscitation bays at Mount Sinai. You need: (1) Bag of normal saline (any volume will do, prefera…

LVAD Poutpourri

This is the last segment of the LVAD-oriented series of pearls. There are a number of LVAD-related complications to be aware of. Disclaimer: I am an emergency medicine resident, not a heart failure fellow. This is my synthesis of a potpourr…

Listen for Hypoxia

The monitors at Mount Sinai (and at Elmhurst, and at most hospitals) allow you to add a tone to the pulse oximeter waveform (see: plethysmograph). The tone is a simple beep, but as the saturation drops so too does the frequency of that beep…

Peds US PIV

“Hey doc, we can’t get a line on the kid in room 7, he’s going to need an US IV” is one of the last things I want to hear while working a peds shift. I’ve put US lines in teens, but they aren’t much diffe…

Google Deep Learning for EHR

Google recently published a study online (not peer reviewed) of its AI system that predicts medical outcomes such as in patient mortality, readmission, etc There is a lot of technical jargon in the paper, but here is a brief summary: -Previ…

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