EPTThe Slow Heart Blues - Page 2
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GhandiEAGLE
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Ero-Sennin
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felisconcolori
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Also, and this is entirely different, how did you get that heart monitor picture? I can't imagine you stopping to get a pic while you were treating her. | ||
Liquid`Jinro
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Midori8
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Forgottenfrog
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Tobberoth
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surfinbird1
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ELA
Denmark4608 Posts
Thank you for sharing man, appreciate it | ||
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Aerisky
United States12129 Posts
Now I realize why people enter medicine. Truly saving lives on a daily basis. Also, your English is great haha. | ||
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CluEleSs_UK
United Kingdom583 Posts
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Eufouria
United Kingdom4425 Posts
I read your blog about your scumbag colleagues when you first posted and I thought that even though what he did sucked it wouldn't affect you too much because you seemed like it would only be a matter of time before you became a resident and this blog only confirms what I thought. Keep posting these blogs, I really enjoy reading them, even if they make me realise that I will probably never come close to making the world a better place on the same level that people like you do. | ||
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Railxp
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UmbraaeternuS
Chile476 Posts
On August 03 2012 21:36 CluEleSs_UK wrote: Would it have been feasible to use something to up her heart-rate artificially to buy time instead of the external pacemaker? say, 8mg of ephedrine or something similar? Yes. The Advanced Cardiac Life Support algorythm for bradycardia treatment states you can use up to 10mcg/min of Epinephrine in an infussion, but it is a 3rd line drug. Dopamine is the 2nd line drug, in doses ranging from 2mcg/kg/min up to 10 mcg/kg/min. The issue here was that in order to use either Epinephrine or Dopamine in an infussion, you need to have an infusion pump, because you need really accurate amounts of either drug you use going through the IV line. My hospital doesn't have an infusion pump and there's a great deal of risk using Epinephrine in fixed doses without an infusion pump, particularly when you have an underlying fast-paced arythmia such as the atrial fibrilation my patient had. Being atropine the 1st line drug, and since my patient didn't respond to it, her best choice was the pacemaker. Also, for those wondering about the monitor pic: Google can help you find anything. | ||
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JieXian
Malaysia4677 Posts
I too was about to ask about how you got your mastery of technical English... (I suppose the question now is, is your technical language as good in Spanish? On August 03 2012 06:29 UmbraaeternuS wrote: + Show Spoiler + Animo wn, pongale huevos al asunto y aprovecha de preguntar y aprender todo lo que puedas, porque esto si no lo cachabas del internado, te piteabai a la paciente... Recuerda siempre la responsabilidad que llevamos con nosotros, porque en nuestro saber, que son nuestras manos, está la vida del paciente. A digression, but could anyone explain to me what's "animo wn" and "te pitebai"? What's the tense and root of pitebai? | ||
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UmbraaeternuS
Chile476 Posts
On August 04 2012 01:13 JieXian wrote: Awesome shit as always. I too was about to ask about how you got your mastery of technical English... (I suppose the question now is, is your technical language as good in Spanish? A digression, but could anyone explain to me what's "animo wn" and "te pitebai"? What's the tense and root of pitebai? How I got the mastery of technical english? I'm far from mastery of technical english. I just read a lot and study, and most of the good stuff to learn is in english. I don't think it's as good as my spanish, but I think it's OK. And spanish isn't my native language... It's german. My father's family descents from german inmigrants who colonized southern Chile, and I spent most of my time at my grandma's house, and she speaks german fluently, so I learned there. Plus, I spent over 10 years in a german school. And those other terms you ask about are chilean deformations of certain words, such as "wn" being the contraction of "huevon" or "weon" which is used as a familiar term, being the equivalent of "dude", but in other ocasions may be used as an insult, as an equivalent to "asshole"; context to determine the meaning of it is pretty important, as you might imagine. "Piteabai" is a neologysm, derived from the slang "pitear" which means "to destroy/break". Chileans speak a pretty weird spanish... | ||
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Hellboy.100
Slovenia135 Posts
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digmouse
China6331 Posts
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docvoc
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MisterD
Germany1338 Posts
On August 04 2012 08:29 docvoc wrote: These blogs are really amazing, idk why you aren't featured yet .actually .. he is  | ||
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