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Chips Anyone?
2008-01-01 06:00:00 Well I found this kind of interesting, the first of this medical device that I've had a patient actually using. OK let me explain this one.I was doing a ECG on a patient in the ER tonight and the ECG machine was picking up a lot of artifacts on the tracing so I readjusted all my leads and checked my wires and disconnected the lead to the ER monitor and still the same with the artifacts but the ECG machine was saying it was detecting muscle tremors. Now here is the part the that I though was quite interesting the patient said to me "Could it be the chip a doctor had implanted in her when she had heart surgery last year?" so now I'm curious and I ask her what chip is she talking about and she continues to tell me that it was told to her after the surgery that the doctor implanted a microchip in her with information of her surgery for future knowledge.Now I start thinking maybe this is one of the RFID chips that I have heard about which can carry your medical information. I'm thinki... More About: Chips
It's Pouring!!!
2007-12-28 11:52:00 Remember that "Wow it's been really slow for awhile now" thing I wrote a couple posts back? Well it's over now, tonight has become hell night, so I'm not able to blog about what I wanted to but I will at a later time.Well I've been hit with a ton of COPD patients tonight along with multiple Chest Pain which cause use to do EKG's. It's just been crazy and we are assuming that it was the nicer weather that awoke all the bacterias up and now it's getting colder and we are expecting 3-9 inches of snow today, so yep weather and barometric pressure change can really effect those people with COPD and it's happening tonight at my little hospital. It's also happening at my wife's big hospital were she is a ER nurse, they have been just as busy.Here in my little slice of heaven I am the only RT on a night so I'm running all over with the new patients we are getting and I'm only able to write a little due to forgetting to get the chance to do the controls on our ABG machines so ...
It's Pouring!!!
2007-12-28 11:52:00 Remember that "Wow it's been really slow for awhile now" thing I wrote a couple posts back? Well it's over now, tonight has become hell night, so I'm not able to blog about what I wanted to but I will at a later time.Well I've been hit with a ton of COPD patients tonight along with multiple Chest Pain which cause use to do EKG's. It's just been crazy and we are assuming that it was the nicer weather that awoke all the bacterias up and now it's getting colder and we are expecting 3-9 inches of snow today, so yep weather and barometric pressure change can really effect those people with COPD and it's happening tonight at my little hospital. It's also happening at my wife's big hospital were she is a ER nurse, they have been just as busy.Here in my little slice of heaven I am the only RT on a night so I'm running all over with the new patients we are getting and I'm only able to write a little due to forgetting to get the chance to do the controls on our ABG machines so ...
Need a Harmonica player for your band?
2007-12-27 05:57:00 I found this interesting article from the Arizona Republic about a program at the John C. Lincoln hospital in Phoenix Arizona.Basically it is a class put on by Mike Clark, a registered respiratory therapist at the hospital where patients with mainly COPD are learning to play the Harmonica . By using the harmonica these patients can hear exactly how they are breathing along with learning a instrument and getting some PEP therapy along with it I'm sure. They used to use therapies for strengthening their lungs by blowing out candles, walking treadmills or blowing up small balloons but it sounds like this one is a bit more fun.I have to say therapy must be easier to do and stay with it is interesting and fun. Can't help but be a little impressed with this "alternative therapy". I have noticed over the years that the people who do get this highest amount on their Incentive Spirometry seem to have played some type on instrument in the past, mostly it seemed to be a trumpet like instrumen... More About: Band , Player
Need a Harmonica player for your band?
2007-12-27 05:57:00 I found this interesting article from the Arizona Republic about a program at the John C. Lincoln hospital in Phoenix Arizona.Basically it is a class put on by Mike Clark, a registered respiratory therapist at the hospital where patients with mainly COPD are learning to play the Harmonica . By using the harmonica these patients can hear exactly how they are breathing along with learning a instrument and getting some PEP therapy along with it I'm sure. They used to use therapies for strengthening their lungs by blowing out candles, walking treadmills or blowing up small balloons but it sounds like this one is a bit more fun.I have to say therapy must be easier to do and stay with it is interesting and fun. Can't help but be a little impressed with this "alternative therapy". I have noticed over the years that the people who do get this highest amount on their Incentive Spirometry seem to have played some type on instrument in the past, mostly it seemed to be a trumpet like instrumen... More About: Band , Player
Deadtime....
2007-12-23 09:30:00 Ok just did 2 posting but this is kind of interesting to any night shifters out there.My wife and I have been watching this show called Paranormal State which is basically about ghost and paranormal hunters. Its a show where the video the actual hunts and the attempt to contact and remove the paranormal activity, this in not a Docudrama its real footage.Anyways there is a time called Dead time which they say is when there is the most paranormal activity and this time is between 3:00am and 4:00am. OK if this is true and we work in hospital where people die and there are surely ghost around, maybe we should keep our eyes open during this time. Kind of eerie.What do you think, seen any ghosts at your hospital? I have at another I worked at in Germany while I was in the military, but I will keep that story for a later post.Keep calm.
Deadtime....
2007-12-23 09:30:00 Ok just did 2 posting but this is kind of interesting to any night shifters out there.My wife and I have been watching this show called Paranormal State which is basically about ghost and paranormal hunters. Its a show where the video the actual hunts and the attempt to contact and remove the paranormal activity, this in not a Docudrama its real footage.Anyways there is a time called Dead time which they say is when there is the most paranormal activity and this time is between 3:00am and 4:00am. OK if this is true and we work in hospital where people die and there are surely ghost around, maybe we should keep our eyes open during this time. Kind of eerie.What do you think, seen any ghosts at your hospital? I have at another I worked at in Germany while I was in the military, but I will keep that story for a later post.Keep calm.
Cardiorespiratory Therapist?
2007-12-23 08:52:00 So why does it seem that the duties of EKG's always fall in the hands of us RT's? Where we trained in cardiology, or given the knowledge of ECG/EKG's or even doing these tests on patients? I know I was never given a class on this type of testing during my schooling, but it the powers that be seem to think that EKG's should fall onto us RT's. Now I'm sure this isn't the case for all RT's who work in Hospitals, but so far in the last 11 years doing this it seem to be the standard where I have worked.Now being a male RT doing EKG's can become a little touchy at times, but we must know to remain professional at all times also. Ok now I'm not trying to sound perverted but really is it to hard to ask for a hottie patient to do a EKG on every now and then, I think not. Really think about it what is our EKG population like and the problems the come with it.As a man we have to handle these women's breasts which are in general terms a taboo region just to bear in front of a st... More About: Therapist , Thera
Cardiorespiratory Therapist?
2007-12-23 08:52:00 So why does it seem that the duties of EKG's always fall in the hands of us RT's? Where we trained in cardiology, or given the knowledge of ECG/EKG's or even doing these tests on patients? I know I was never given a class on this type of testing during my schooling, but it the powers that be seem to think that EKG's should fall onto us RT's. Now I'm sure this isn't the case for all RT's who work in Hospitals, but so far in the last 11 years doing this it seem to be the standard where I have worked.Now being a male RT doing EKG's can become a little touchy at times, but we must know to remain professional at all times also. Ok now I'm not trying to sound perverted but really is it to hard to ask for a hottie patient to do a EKG on every now and then, I think not. Really think about it what is our EKG population like and the problems the come with it.As a man we have to handle these women's breasts which are in general terms a taboo region just to bear in front of a st... More About: Therapist , Thera
Moments of Busy.
2007-12-23 07:39:00 As you might of noticed from my last post that we are really not all that busy here in my RT Cave, but we do have our moments of busy and last night was one of them.I get here at my normal time of 1830 figuring on a pretty decent night. I do the normal thing, put my coat and my food in my locker and fridge and then page the RT on shift to see if they need any help, usually it's a "Nope, I'll be right up.". Well not this tonight it was more of a "Could you get started on the treatments and meet me in the ICU, or I'll find you when I'm done." Ok still nothing to really get me thinking busy, I mean our treatment load is 2 QID's and one Q4, sure I can knock that out.After I get those 3 really tough nebs (sarcasm) done I head off down to the ICU to see if my partner needs any help, well yep she does with a patient who is vented. Now I notice that she is bagging this patient and the vent is next to her and running, so I ask whats going on? She had been bagging this patient for o... More About: Moments , Busy
Moments of Busy.
2007-12-23 07:39:00 As you might of noticed from my last post that we are really not all that busy here in my RT Cave, but we do have our moments of busy and last night was one of them.I get here at my normal time of 1830 figuring on a pretty decent night. I do the normal thing, put my coat and my food in my locker and fridge and then page the RT on shift to see if they need any help, usually it's a "Nope, I'll be right up.". Well not this tonight it was more of a "Could you get started on the treatments and meet me in the ICU, or I'll find you when I'm done." Ok still nothing to really get me thinking busy, I mean our treatment load is 2 QID's and one Q4, sure I can knock that out.After I get those 3 really tough nebs (sarcasm) done I head off down to the ICU to see if my partner needs any help, well yep she does with a patient who is vented. Now I notice that she is bagging this patient and the vent is next to her and running, so I ask whats going on? She had been bagging this patient for o... More About: Moments , Busy
Where's the patients?
2007-12-17 08:02:00 Now I'm not complaining but it can get a little boring around here without patients to work with. Yes I'm talking about having no patients through the night and this is my 4Th shift in a row where it's been like this. Actually we have only 7 total patients that require our RT expertise, which is 5 more than there was 3 days ago.It is damn cold here lately with a lot of snow and ice around so maybe the cold is killing all the Bactria's off so nothing to get anyone sick. That's not true the Flu is running through my house. My 9 year old had a Asthma flareup with vomiting from the Flu which then went to my 9 month old who has been vomiting for 4 days now, but better today. Now did anyone know that doc's don't give medication to babies anymore to help stop the vomiting? I didn't!!! Nor did my wife the ER nurse, but the pediatrician said there was a study of some sort and they don't recommend anti-vomiting meds anymore for babies, so we just had to keep washing his sheets... More About: Patients
Where's the patients?
2007-12-17 08:02:00 Now I'm not complaining but it can get a little boring around here without patients to work with. Yes I'm talking about having no patients through the night and this is my 4Th shift in a row where it's been like this. Actually we have only 7 total patients that require our RT expertise, which is 5 more than there was 3 days ago.It is damn cold here lately with a lot of snow and ice around so maybe the cold is killing all the Bactria's off so nothing to get anyone sick. That's not true the Flu is running through my house. My 9 year old had a Asthma flareup with vomiting from the Flu which then went to my 9 month old who has been vomiting for 4 days now, but better today. Now did anyone know that doc's don't give medication to babies anymore to help stop the vomiting? I didn't!!! Nor did my wife the ER nurse, but the pediatrician said there was a study of some sort and they don't recommend anti-vomiting meds anymore for babies, so we just had to keep washing his sheets... More About: Patients
Does smoking drive our profession?
2007-12-03 07:49:00 Is it possible that smoking drives out profession? Is it also possible that the patient load of our profession could be decreasing significantly in the future?This is just maybe a theory I have thought about but let me explain myself. If you look at the patients who we give nebulizer tx's to on a regular basis the majority of them are COPDer's and Asthmatics in trouble. Now say we cut out the COPDers and notice how much our census will drop because to me it seems that I see more COPDers than I do asthmatics so if we see less of them our census goes down right, also with more education and better use of medications there can be less of the admitted in the hospital. Here is a article showing this.Self-Management Education for COPD Patients Cuts Hospital AdmissionsThere are a couple of sites that have shown that study that I have found, but I'm only going to post one for now.Another way to look at my thoughts on how our census will decrease in the future goes like this: The majority... More About: Profession , Drive , Smoking , Fess
Does smoking drive our profession?
2007-12-03 07:49:00 Is it possible that smoking drives out profession? Is it also possible that the patient load of our profession could be decreasing significantly in the future?This is just maybe a theory I have thought about but let me explain myself. If you look at the patients who we give nebulizer tx's to on a regular basis the majority of them are COPDer's and Asthmatics in trouble. Now say we cut out the COPDers and notice how much our census will drop because to me it seems that I see more COPDers than I do asthmatics so if we see less of them our census goes down right, also with more education and better use of medications there can be less of the admitted in the hospital. Here is a article showing this.Self-Management Education for COPD Patients Cuts Hospital AdmissionsThere are a couple of sites that have shown that study that I have found, but I'm only going to post one for now.Another way to look at my thoughts on how our census will decrease in the future goes like this: The majority... More About: Profession , Drive , Smoking , Fess
A Good Holiday.
2007-11-25 06:40:00 Well I haven't written in awhile due to the holiday's, I was a little busy. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, I did.So what's new in my RT world. Well as we know I work in a smaller hospital and one thing I recently noticed is that our ICU is being used as a Drunk Tank, or detox for alcohol. Well what I mean is lately we have had a bit of patients in the ICU who were just in for alcohol poisoning as their diagnosis, in my opinion they were just intoxicated, drank a bit to much and maybe a little depressed due to the holidays coming up. Yes this is a small town hospital and from what I have heard there is only like 6 police in this town so really that probably don't have the resources to service these people in the jail like they did on the Andy Griffith show when Otis would get drunk and then come to the station to sleep it off. Now really is this a good place to put these people? All of them have been men and normally the majority of RN's working in the ICU are ... More About: Holiday , Good
A Good Holiday.
2007-11-25 06:40:00 Well I haven't written in awhile due to the holiday's, I was a little busy. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, I did.So what's new in my RT world. Well as we know I work in a smaller hospital and one thing I recently noticed is that our ICU is being used as a Drunk Tank, or detox for alcohol. Well what I mean is lately we have had a bit of patients in the ICU who were just in for alcohol poisoning as their diagnosis, in my opinion they were just intoxicated, drank a bit to much and maybe a little depressed due to the holidays coming up. Yes this is a small town hospital and from what I have heard there is only like 6 police in this town so really that probably don't have the resources to service these people in the jail like they did on the Andy Griffith show when Otis would get drunk and then come to the station to sleep it off. Now really is this a good place to put these people? All of them have been men and normally the majority of RN's working in the ICU are ... More About: Holiday , Good
Mean Patients Suck!
2007-11-16 07:18:00 Is it just me or does anyone else find it fun to antagonize Mean Patients ?You know the ones who come into the hospital but don't want anyone to do anything with them and are just plain mean and unruly. Now these are the ones I like to stay in the room with and just keep irritating them. The ones that yell "Get the hell out of my room!" when you come in. Now is the time to institute operation sarcasm, within limits but it can be a fun game.Then there are the ones who tell you to "Get that f*&^ing thing away from me, I can't get any damn sleep around here." Well sir your not here to sleep only to get that infection out of your body and when you finally get home then you can sleep. There are many patients who don't realize that a hospital isn't a place for rest and relaxation, no it's not R & R time, it's healing time. If your admitted to the hospital it's because you need some extra help that you cannot get at home and you will get this help all night long. In rea... More About: Suck
Mean Patients Suck!
2007-11-16 07:18:00 Is it just me or does anyone else find it fun to antagonize Mean Patients ?You know the ones who come into the hospital but don't want anyone to do anything with them and are just plain mean and unruly. Now these are the ones I like to stay in the room with and just keep irritating them. The ones that yell "Get the hell out of my room!" when you come in. Now is the time to institute operation sarcasm, within limits but it can be a fun game.Then there are the ones who tell you to "Get that f*&^ing thing away from me, I can't get any damn sleep around here." Well sir your not here to sleep only to get that infection out of your body and when you finally get home then you can sleep. There are many patients who don't realize that a hospital isn't a place for rest and relaxation, no it's not R & R time, it's healing time. If your admitted to the hospital it's because you need some extra help that you cannot get at home and you will get this help all night long. In rea... More About: Suck
Pro Atheletes and Respiratory Problems
2007-11-11 09:13:00 Sitting around watching University of Illinois (I take classes through here) beat #1 ranked Ohio State University in football WOOhhooo, I began thinking. What Pro Athletes are out there who have respiratory related problems? I've heard of Pro Athletes who have asthma so there must be more than the couple I have heard of, so the search began. Not only did I have a good amount with asthma but a bunch of information on Pro Athletes with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). I found an article from Sleep Review about Pro Athletes and OSA which was a bit suprising and I will try to make a synopsis of the main points I thought was interesting, but of course feel free to read the whole article.More than 10 years ago, a trend became evident that a high incidence of asthma appeared to be a common condition across the athletes. Numerous Olympic athletes in recent years have been diagnosed with some form of asthma.The incidence of sleep apnea cuts across the entire populace, there is increasing evid... More About: Problems
Pro Atheletes and Respiratory Problems
2007-11-11 09:13:00 Sitting around watching University of Illinois (I take classes through here) beat #1 ranked Ohio State University in football WOOhhooo, I began thinking. What Pro Athletes are out there who have respiratory related problems? I've heard of Pro Athletes who have asthma so there must be more than the couple I have heard of, so the search began. Not only did I have a good amount with asthma but a bunch of information on Pro Athletes with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). I found an article from Sleep Review about Pro Athletes and OSA which was a bit suprising and I will try to make a synopsis of the main points I thought was interesting, but of course feel free to read the whole article.More than 10 years ago, a trend became evident that a high incidence of asthma appeared to be a common condition across the athletes. Numerous Olympic athletes in recent years have been diagnosed with some form of asthma.The incidence of sleep apnea cuts across the entire populace, there is increasing evid... More About: Problems
Sometimes it gets busy.
2007-11-10 11:39:00 I've been off for 3 days now and I walk into work at the beginning of my 12hr shift with a note on the desk that says "Come down to ICU and join the fun!", now this is probably not a invitation to a party in the ICU I'm thinking. Nope it isn't after I answer the phone right after I read this it's a coworker wanting me to come on down asap, ok let me just hang my jacket up at least and grab my stethoscope and off to the ICU I go.In I walk and there my coworker is getting things ready for the Doc to intubate a patient. I can hear this patient outside of the doorway...wow major fluid issues, then I look, puffy like the stay puff marshmallow man and gray, yep this is gonna be fun. We finish getting the intubation stuff ready and the Doc slides the tube in, I place the CO2 tester on and give that first breath and it takes all my hand strength to get a breath in, wow is this patient tight...then I see it, pink frothy and bloody THICK secretion up the tube. Yep that could be a problem,... More About: Busy
Sometimes it gets busy.
2007-11-10 11:39:00 I've been off for 3 days now and I walk into work at the beginning of my 12hr shift with a note on the desk that says "Come down to ICU and join the fun!", now this is probably not a invitation to a party in the ICU I'm thinking. Nope it isn't after I answer the phone right after I read this it's a coworker wanting me to come on down asap, ok let me just hang my jacket up at least and grab my stethoscope and off to the ICU I go.In I walk and there my coworker is getting things ready for the Doc to intubate a patient. I can hear this patient outside of the doorway...wow major fluid issues, then I look, puffy like the stay puff marshmallow man and gray, yep this is gonna be fun. We finish getting the intubation stuff ready and the Doc slides the tube in, I place the CO2 tester on and give that first breath and it takes all my hand strength to get a breath in, wow is this patient tight...then I see it, pink frothy and bloody THICK secretion up the tube. Yep that could be a problem,... More About: Busy
Lets Lighten it up a bit.
2007-11-06 11:19:00 Ok so that last post was a bit on the downer side so now I have to lighten up the mood a bit with a anecdote from my wife and where she works. She is a ER nurse at a much bigger hospital than mine.Anyways I thought this was hilarious.A nicely dressed lady in her late 30's comes in complaining of stomach pains. My wife goes in to get her history and information about the complaint and the patient goes on telling her that she and her husband drank a big the night before and started playing around and her husband decided to try something new and use a beer bottle as a ----- on her and she awoke this morning with stomach pains. So off the xray she is sent for a abdominal series and the xrays come back to show a bottle cap insider of her. Yes the husband used a unopened bottle that seemed become open, OUCH I would think and where the hell did the beer go. Ok now that isn't the funny part. So the doctor does in to do a pelvic exam to get the bottle cap out, and after the exam he comes b...
Lets Lighten it up a bit.
2007-11-06 11:19:00 Ok so that last post was a bit on the downer side so now I have to lighten up the mood a bit with a anecdote from my wife and where she works. She is a ER nurse at a much bigger hospital than mine.Anyways I thought this was hilarious.A nicely dressed lady in her late 30's comes in complaining of stomach pains. My wife goes in to get her history and information about the complaint and the patient goes on telling her that she and her husband drank a big the night before and started playing around and her husband decided to try something new and use a beer bottle as a ----- on her and she awoke this morning with stomach pains. So off the xray she is sent for a abdominal series and the xrays come back to show a bottle cap insider of her. Yes the husband used a unopened bottle that seemed become open, OUCH I would think and where the hell did the beer go. Ok now that isn't the funny part. So the doctor does in to do a pelvic exam to get the bottle cap out, and after the exam he comes b...
How low can you go
2007-11-06 10:38:00 So I'm going around doing my oxygen rounds (for the RT students, this is the fun time you get to check on all the patients who were or are on oxygen, mainly for charging purposes and sat checks), and I come upon this patient who has been in the hospital for awhile and notice that she looks awefully purple grayish in color, especially her lips. Now mind you this is in the middle of the night so the lights are off of course its 4 am. I proceed with my check by saying "Mrs. Namewithheldduetohippa I need to check your oxygen saturation levels" for which she complies and gives me the regulation oxygen check finger into my pulse ox device. After looking at the flow meter to see what flow she is on I look at the pulse ox and WHOA it's 52%!!!! So quickly I turn on the light, damn she really is purple grayish and not red in her lips at all. This lady has been on a 10-15 liter high flow nasal cannula and she had decided to take it off. I then ask her if she had been the one to take it off, ...
How low can you go
2007-11-06 10:38:00 So I'm going around doing my oxygen rounds (for the RT students, this is the fun time you get to check on all the patients who were or are on oxygen, mainly for charging purposes and sat checks), and I come upon this patient who has been in the hospital for awhile and notice that she looks awefully purple grayish in color, especially her lips. Now mind you this is in the middle of the night so the lights are off of course its 4 am. I proceed with my check by saying "Mrs. Namewithheldduetohippa I need to check your oxygen saturation levels" for which she complies and gives me the regulation oxygen check finger into my pulse ox device. After looking at the flow meter to see what flow she is on I look at the pulse ox and WHOA it's 52%!!!! So quickly I turn on the light, damn she really is purple grayish and not red in her lips at all. This lady has been on a 10-15 liter high flow nasal cannula and she had decided to take it off. I then ask her if she had been the one to take it off, ...
The Calm Before the Storm
2007-11-05 11:56:00 Only 2 patients tonight, one a Q4 and one a Q2, yep nice and quiet. This actually give me 2 more nebulizer treatments I have to do than the last shift I worked, of course the Q2 isn't as bad as this person is thought to be, but no protocol is wanted on him so I kind of feel bad waking this patient up and taking loudly just to keep him awake and deep breathing. So ok he is wheezing and sats do drop without O2 so there is a need for something.Wow ER just paged for a EKG....Turns out nothing exciting, patient just left 10 days ago and has a Doctor appointment tomorrow oh and yep EKG was fine, doc says it's probably musculoskeletal pain, now get out of here and go home.There has been some lazy shifts lately for my old RT department but isn't that how this job goes the patient load ebbs and flows like the tide. Feast or famine, you either run all night or you might sit all night and chat with the nurses or better yet blog about it.Over my time in the profession I have noticed some ... More About: Storm , Calm
The Calm Before the Storm
2007-11-05 11:56:00 Only 2 patients tonight, one a Q4 and one a Q2, yep nice and quiet. This actually give me 2 more nebulizer treatments I have to do than the last shift I worked, of course the Q2 isn't as bad as this person is thought to be, but no protocol is wanted on him so I kind of feel bad waking this patient up and taking loudly just to keep him awake and deep breathing. So ok he is wheezing and sats do drop without O2 so there is a need for something.Wow ER just paged for a EKG....Turns out nothing exciting, patient just left 10 days ago and has a Doctor appointment tomorrow oh and yep EKG was fine, doc says it's probably musculoskeletal pain, now get out of here and go home.There has been some lazy shifts lately for my old RT department but isn't that how this job goes the patient load ebbs and flows like the tide. Feast or famine, you either run all night or you might sit all night and chat with the nurses or better yet blog about it.Over my time in the profession I have noticed some ... More About: Storm , Calm
Vaseline and Oxygen: Flame On
More articles from this author:2007-11-03 16:59:00 I have been told before that you cannot mix oxygen and vaseline together because they can cause a flame and cause problems. How many others of you have heard this information, maybe this should be put on a new Myth Buster's show.So I started looking around a bit and have came across some posting on nursing sites about whether this is a myth or not. I have found numerous references to this article, "Dispelling the petroleum jelly myth," in the November 1998 American Journal of Nursing but I have no way to access this article and cannot find a good free source for this. If anyone out there has access to this I would be interested to hear or see the information in this article.Information I have found out about this being a combustible subject is that when a patient used a thin layer of petroleum jelly on their lips due to dryness from the oxygen that the oxygen from a oxygen device to provide the patient with oxygen can cause the petroleum jelly can cause a gas that when combined ... More About: Oxygen , Flame , Vaseline 1, 2, 3 |
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