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 Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:41 am
POST: anything and everything, good and bad, about your clinical hospital experience(s)
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:43 am
Yesterday we had a Code 99, a woman fell down in the hospital, My RT had to Bag and help intubate, also helped transfer her to ER where she put the lady on a vent, the woman stayed there for about an hour and then was transferred to ICU where her family took her off the vent and patiently watched her die.
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:25 am
and the day before yesterday a "frequent flyer" came in and was almost intubated, but not, his CO2 was 150!!! they had to transport him out and later he was intubated, I guess this guy had been in and out of the hospital this last 5 years, he always stays for a few days, goes home, and in less than a week, is back.... my RT wonders what is at home that makes him so sick, cause even if he doesn't take his treatments at home, he still shouldn't get so sick again so soon....
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:02 am
At Clinical my instructor got mad at me cause I kept trying to tilt my head back to see her screen in case she was charting or doing anything important that I would need to know as an RT, and she yelled at me, "stop trying to read my messages!" and I was like: "I wasn't I was just seeing if you were doing anything important" then I realized that sounded bad, like I was insinuating that she was being useless or something... so I tried to fix things but once my foot starts in on the journey to my mouth, it just don't stop
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:59 am
OK, new one, ummmmmmmmmm Rick was cool, very funny and nice guy, but we spent the whole day cleaning up the mess the last shift left behind. Vents and Bipaps, stuff to stock, it was just a mess in the RT department... no codes or Emergency Department calls, kinda lax on the scary stuff, there was a baby that was born that had troubles that they had to help out on, that was interesting, really got me thinking, but overall, the day was almost uneventful... cept for this one nice patient who we taught how to use an MDI to, she couldn't fire it well, her hands were shaky, but she was a funny older woman
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 1:56 pm
My RT seems virtually always on edge... like, on slow days she just plays on the computer and doesn't want to answer any of my questions... It turns our we grew up in the same place in California... but still, its crazy... she seems distant... and when she's not, and when she talks about the LCC program, she speaks ill of it.. then tells me what she learned, how she learned it, the structure and everything.... her experience is way better no doubt, but still, it almost seems like she's taking it out on me that the class hasn't taught us more...
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electrondude Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:46 am
at my new site I love just about everyone and have been doing more stuffs altogether. think I'm doing a better job there, but this summer term I've been sucking a** in school, not doing homework till the last second and what not
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:43 am
I've been doing way much by myself lately, independent of the RT, scary but fun
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electrondude Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:47 am
The word 'asthma' is derived from the Greek aazein, meaning "sharp breath." The word first appears in Homer's Iliad. Hippocrates was the first to use it in reference to the medical condition, in 450 BC. Hippocrates thought that the spasms associated with asthma were more likely to occur in tailors, anglers, and metalworkers. Six centuries later, Galen wrote much about asthma, noting that it was caused by partial or complete bronchial obstruction. In 1190 AD, Moses Maimonides, an influential medieval rabbi, philosopher, and physician, wrote a treatise on asthma, describing its prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.[4] In the 17th century, Bernardino Ramazzini noted a connection between asthma and organic dust. The use of bronchodilators started in 1901, but it was not until the 1960s that the inflammatory component of asthma was recognized, and anti-inflammatory medications were added to the regimens.
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