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How long should heart rate remain elevated with a positive test dose?
The tachycardia from the epi usually starts within seconds and the patients will simultaneously tell you they feel like their heart is beating out of their chest. Not a pleasant sensation. Resolves fairly quickly, within 30 seconds to maybe 2 minutes (unless you sent them into some sort of tachyarrhythmia that persists).
On a somewhat related note, I once had to give adenosine on the L&D floor for a patient in SVT. That was quite the production.
Had one positive test dose on OB on a little Hispanic lady. Within maybe 10-15 seconds she grabbed her chest and exclaimed "Mi corazon!!!!"The tachycardia from the epi usually starts within seconds and the patients will simultaneously tell you they feel like their heart is beating out of their chest. Not a pleasant sensation. Resolves fairly quickly, within 30 seconds to maybe 2 minutes (unless you sent them into some sort of tachyarrhythmia that persists).
On a somewhat related note, I once had to give adenosine on the L&D floor for a patient in SVT. That was quite the production.
I hope you were like "Mierda!!"Had one positive test dose on OB on a little Hispanic lady. Within maybe 10-15 seconds she grabbed her chest and exclaimed "Mi corazon!!!!"
As noted, resolved in maybe 1-2 minutes.
For the positive, no blood from aspiration?Had one positive test dose on OB on a little Hispanic lady. Within maybe 10-15 seconds she grabbed her chest and exclaimed "Mi corazon!!!!"
As noted, resolved in maybe 1-2 minutes.
No blood before OR after the test dose.For the positive, no blood from aspiration?
No blood before OR after the test dose.
Pulled it. Went down a level.Then what did you do with that information? Did you use the catheter or pull it?
Could have just leaked over into a blood vessel that was breached during placement but not cannulated.No blood before OR after the test dose.
I put in my first Braun epidural catheter in probably 10 years a couple weeks ago. (Covering OB in a new hospital, just grabbed the first kit I could find.) Blood flowed back into the catheter. Didn't test dose it, just pulled it and found an Arrow kit. I have never ever had one of the spring wound Arrows go intravascular.
I put in my first Braun epidural catheter in probably 10 years a couple weeks ago. (Covering OB in a new hospital, just grabbed the first kit I could find.) Blood flowed back into the catheter. Didn't test dose it, just pulled it and found an Arrow kit. I have never ever had one of the spring wound Arrows go intravascular.