When injecting lidocaine as a local anaesthetic, it’s really rather important that you don’t give too much, what with the whole making-the-nerves-stop-working aspects of its pharmacological profile. When given locally it’s a terrific anaesthetic, however if too much is allowed into the general circulation, everything gets a bit tingly, the brain goes a tad bezerkContinue reading “Lidocaine “
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If a patient has low blood pressure but also has heart failure, you have to try and improve their cardiac output without fluid overloading them. You could rock them back and forth, but a better bet is to fold them them in half. Lift the head and the feet of the bed so they foldContinue reading “Dippy”