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Per Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff
So kinda like the threads in the Surgery forum about ridiculous consults and dismal pages, thought a thread about the ridiculous things other healthcare people just don't understand about the ICU could be fun.
I'll start:
Pediatric oncologists love to quote that mortality of intubated oncology patients is near 70% to us in the PICU as if somehow the intubation is what's killing them. I've had senior onc attendings when I was a fellow ask me NOT to intubate their patients because of that statistic despite the kid satting 82% on 40LPM and 100% O2...
So kinda like the threads in the Surgery forum about ridiculous consults and dismal pages, thought a thread about the ridiculous things other healthcare people just don't understand about the ICU could be fun.
I'll start:
Pediatric oncologists love to quote that mortality of intubated oncology patients is near 70% to us in the PICU as if somehow the intubation is what's killing them. I've had senior onc attendings when I was a fellow ask me NOT to intubate their patients because of that statistic despite the kid satting 82% on 40LPM and 100% O2...