What if your patient is still on inotropes after the 6 hrs? If you're using it as a surrogate to monitor O2 delivery and consumption you're obligated to keep following it, especially if you haven't normalized lactate yet...
My $.02. Rich Levrault DO Holyoke Medical Center Holyoke MA Sent from Rich's iPhone > On Nov 27, 2013, at 9:59 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have a locums physician that would like to see us discontinue Scv02 > monitoring after either 6 or 12 hours. He says the literature only supports > its use during the 6 hour window, and there is no added benefit after that. > Thoughts?? > > Susan M. McKinney, RN > Clinical Quality Coordinator-Sepsis > Clinical Documentation Specialist > Rapid City Regional Hospital > 605-719-4428 > 605-484-7381 > [email protected] > > Regional Health's mission is to provide and support health care excellence in > partnership with the communities we serve. > > Note: The information contained in this message, including any attachments, > may be privileged, confidential, or protected from disclosure under state or > federal laws . If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, > or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the > intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you > have received this communication in error, please notify the Sender > immediately by a "reply to sender only" message and destroy all electronic or > paper copies of the communication, including any attachments. > _______________________________________________ > Sepsisgroups mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org
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