Renal Dose Dopamine

[UTSouthwestern]

---

Members do not see this ad.

Im not sure I would agree with that. In fact, at every teaching hospital Ive seen the last three years (only 3...) every CABG I saw got trasylol. There may be a big diff in pp vs. academics, but I havent seen a pump case in the past year where it wasnt used

BIG difference in PP and in a high volume place like THI which does 2800/year. My group does roughly 1600/year and we hardly use it except on redo redo's, Jehova's Witnesses, triple valves, and patients with preexisting anemia.

 

[Idiopathic]

BIG difference in PP and in a high volume place like THI which does 2800/year. My group does roughly 1600/year and we hardly use it except on redo redo's, Jehova's Witnesses, triple valves, and patients with preexisting anemia.

Fair enough, just my limited frame of reference.

 

[Noyac]

BIG difference in PP and in a high volume place like THI which does 2800/year. My group does roughly 1600/year and we hardly use it except on redo redo's, Jehova's Witnesses, triple valves, and patients with preexisting anemia.

Ditto UT, My previous group did about 1000 CABG's a year and I can't ever recall giving it. I may have once or twice but I would be surprised.

 

[Idiopathic]

Ditto UT, My previous group did about 1000 CABG's a year and I can't ever recall giving it. I may have once or twice but I would be surprised.

Do you know whether the perfusionists put in in the pump?

 

[UTSouthwestern]

Do you know whether the perfusionists put in in the pump?

Not without our permission.

 

[Noyac]

Do you know whether the perfusionists put in in the pump?

Not in the pump either. But then again we hardly ever used the pump. Which is another reason for not needing the stuff.

 

[jetproppilot]

BIG difference in PP and in a high volume place like THI which does 2800/year. My group does roughly 1600/year and we hardly use it except on redo redo's, Jehova's Witnesses, triple valves, and patients with preexisting anemia.

12 years ago when I was a CA2 doing my THI rotation, the attendings skoffed at the drug.

Even then.

Goes to show you that people who see something every day, over and over, learn what works and what doesnt.

I bring this up because of Mil's post about NPO guidelines.

Dudes that do case-after-case-after-case EVERY DAY know what works and what doesnt....which "rules" are important and which ones can be confronted....