Explain your screen name

[Old_School]

YOU might be OLD SCHOOL if:
you stood helpless while a person infracted large areas of their myocardium and provided only large quantities of morphine to them.

[lam]

these are funny, but when I started nursing there were only glass bottles for IV's , not many central lines or PICC's, tonsilectomies were routine, people could go into the hospital and stay a week or 2 for testing. You never saw an IV in LTC, therapy was unheard of in LTC. we cleaned glass thermomenters in a solution. Betadine was used for everything from pre-op scrubs to douches. Bed pans have come along way from the white metal ones that had to be sterilized to our new and improved plastic disposables. "Those were the days, my friend, I thought they would never end". lol

[Old_School]

I'll bet you remember "dermoclysis".

O_S

[Old_School]

YOU might be OLD SCHOOL if:
you have used “Polarizing Solution” on acute MI’s.

[lam]

dermoclysis? refresh my memory

[Old_School]

You would see this a lot in Nursing Home (I can't bring myself around to call it LTC) patients. You would have some type of isotonic solution attached to tubing that would split into a Y. Then two narrow ga needles (25 or 27 g) that look like butterfly needles would be inserted either intradurmal or subcutaneous, usually into the top of both thighs. Then the fluid would infuse directly into the third space.


Actually, running fluid IV is called venoclysis. How's that for a Jeopardy question?

O_S

[lam]

oh I had that for the first time recently we put it into the abdomen 2 small needles into abd. with y tubing connected to the IV. I just can't remember what they called it. That was the only time I had seen it or used it. ok for short time hydration tx. less invasive especially in the elderly who have poor veins to begin with.
You don't see many lamp tx. for wound care either. Do miss the betadine and sugar for decubes, healed many decubes with it. no infestions in the wounds. Those were the days

[cassioo]

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Old_School said:
I'll bet you remember "dermoclysis".

O_S

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used to be used in peds alot...but before my time.

[Old_School]

YOU might be OLD SCHOOL if:
you were once trusted to mix a Potassium drip.

[lam]

we used to put the K in IV's but then I gues there were some horror stories of other things getting mistaken for K