Belly up to the Bar (aka The Post Whorin' Thread)

[Corey]

Originally Posted by tommymac

Nurses questioning lead placement. EKG is like a 4 letter word to soem of them and I think a few of our ekg techs would punch them if they said stuff like that. Our good techs love me though becasue I let them do cool stuff and teach them procedures. One wants to be a PA and 2 others are going into nursing so I always get them if I have something cool to do.

I know my shit backwards and forwards. My placement was spot on. The nurses are pissed because they now have to do actual work. One of the nurses tried to get a Doctor to chew my ass out on my "bad" lead placement. Doctor looked at the EKG and my leads and said it was spot on and exactly what he was expecting. Eat shit, lazy nurse.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Corey

I know my shit backwards and forwards. My placement was spot on. The nurses are pissed because they now have to do actual work. One of the nurses tried to get a Doctor to chew my ass out on my "bad" lead placement. Doctor looked at the EKG and my leads and said it was spot on and exactly what he was expecting. Eat shit, lazy nurse.

If theres a lot of artifact they may change up the lead placement a bit, and occasionally we can atribute findings to lead placement, but most of our guys know that and will sometimes do several ekg's till they get a good one and will tell us that. keep the nurses out of the equation all together.

[Corey]

Originally Posted by tommymac

If theres a lot of artifact they may change up the lead placement a bit, and occasionally we can atribute findings to lead placement, but most of our guys know that and will sometimes do several ekg's till they get a good one and will tell us that. keep the nurses out of the equation all together.

Artifact is for amateurs. I'm the EKG Kid.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Corey

Artifact is for amateurs. I'm the EKG Kid.

You need to see the trainwrecks we get here. Some of the fluid overloaded dialysis pts, and one guy had some bizzare skin condition we couldnt get much of an ekg on him even after wiping him down with alcohol.