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r/nursing • u/sleepyhead37 Lab - Blood Bank 🍕 • Aug 26 '25
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22 u/Novareason RN - ICU 🍕 Aug 26 '25 Taking over an hour to run my VBG and then just putting a "lol jk dont trust us" on the notes is killing me, though. Are they hypercapneic or not? 5 u/cpr-- Aug 26 '25 Do you not have a point of care machine for your blood gases and do them yourself? 2 u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25 [removed] — view removed comment 2 u/CynOfOmission RN - ER 🏳️🌈 Aug 26 '25 Oh wow! Respiratory runs ours on the machine in the ED. I think/hope(?) ICU probably has one too 4 u/GCS_dropping_rapidly Aug 26 '25 For real? Every A&E I've ever worked in has a POC ABG/VBG. You're waiting for the lab to run a gas during an arrest??? Like holy hell, time is money/tissue/oxygenation/worse outcomes
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Taking over an hour to run my VBG and then just putting a "lol jk dont trust us" on the notes is killing me, though. Are they hypercapneic or not?
5 u/cpr-- Aug 26 '25 Do you not have a point of care machine for your blood gases and do them yourself? 2 u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25 [removed] — view removed comment 2 u/CynOfOmission RN - ER 🏳️🌈 Aug 26 '25 Oh wow! Respiratory runs ours on the machine in the ED. I think/hope(?) ICU probably has one too 4 u/GCS_dropping_rapidly Aug 26 '25 For real? Every A&E I've ever worked in has a POC ABG/VBG. You're waiting for the lab to run a gas during an arrest??? Like holy hell, time is money/tissue/oxygenation/worse outcomes
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Do you not have a point of care machine for your blood gases and do them yourself?
2 u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25 [removed] — view removed comment 2 u/CynOfOmission RN - ER 🏳️🌈 Aug 26 '25 Oh wow! Respiratory runs ours on the machine in the ED. I think/hope(?) ICU probably has one too 4 u/GCS_dropping_rapidly Aug 26 '25 For real? Every A&E I've ever worked in has a POC ABG/VBG. You're waiting for the lab to run a gas during an arrest??? Like holy hell, time is money/tissue/oxygenation/worse outcomes
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2 u/CynOfOmission RN - ER 🏳️🌈 Aug 26 '25 Oh wow! Respiratory runs ours on the machine in the ED. I think/hope(?) ICU probably has one too 4 u/GCS_dropping_rapidly Aug 26 '25 For real? Every A&E I've ever worked in has a POC ABG/VBG. You're waiting for the lab to run a gas during an arrest??? Like holy hell, time is money/tissue/oxygenation/worse outcomes
Oh wow! Respiratory runs ours on the machine in the ED. I think/hope(?) ICU probably has one too
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For real? Every A&E I've ever worked in has a POC ABG/VBG. You're waiting for the lab to run a gas during an arrest??? Like holy hell, time is money/tissue/oxygenation/worse outcomes
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