medications used in icu

s time Paxil was start she was exposed to two more deaths in the ICU (where she had already withnessed 5 prior deaths; most of them due to heart attacks, the last one happening at 1am) Four hours later she sufferen form a ventricular tachycardia and went into cardiac arrest, doctors could not bring her back from. A couple of days after her passing I stumbled across some info on Paxil where it warned that medications coudl provoke VT as a side efftect.

Hey friends I came through surgery well.

Sometimes, patients in the hospital, particularly older patients in an ICU, can develop what is called a delirium, an alteration in their level of alertness and awareness. Sometimes it can be associated with confusion and hallucinations. This will usually resolve once the patient is out of the ICU, though patients older than 65-70 sometimes have trouble recovering from this. Depending on where your mom's stroke is, there can be changes in her personality.

As a former nurse, I found that when treating the elderly, they would easily become confused after a period of time in the hospital, especially if they were in the ICU where there is plenty of noise and lack of sleep. This is hard on a young person, the elderly seem to be more sensitive to this...at least that is what I have observed.

On the 3rd day after his knee replacement, he had by-pass surgery. He has been in ICU and on a vent for 20 days. They took the vent off today, and he is very confused and he does not seem to remember much. Is this normal? Is there anything I can do to help him?

I haven't used calcium sulfate before but I work in a doctors office and the doctors prescribe it for low calcium.

Im 27 years old and have severe mitral valve regurgitation im on a lot of medications to keep my heart functioning. Im gonna be induced at 36 weeks in the icu just in case something goes wrong with my heart. has anyone else experienced this? Im scared and dont know what to expect. I cant find no one whos gone threw this.

Most of the food we eat is turned into glucose (or sugar) to be used for energy. The pancreas is responsible in producing insulin to help glucose get into the cells of our bodies. With diabetes, the body either does not make enough insulin or can not use its own insulin as well as it should. This causes sugars to build up in the blood. Because of this problem, when the body cannot get enough glucose from the blood to use as energy, it will begin to burn fat.

Spiriva is an anticholenergic used to treat various forms of COPD, but rarely asthma. The primary function of these medications is to reduce mucous in the respiratory system. They do have a mild broncho-dilating affect. I have not used Spiriva so I am unsure of its dosage, but I have taken ipratropium which is in the same class. As a neb solution it lasts 6 hours and as an MDI it last 4 hours. Check your prescription for dosing on this medication.

Many times this will depend on ur dr and u...how u do.....I was in ICU for 2 and a 1/2 days and then in the reg room for 3days..... May I ask who is doing ur surgery?.... I am glad to welcome u to our little family here, sorry the reason u had to seek us out.

last week I went to the emergency room with chest pains, they found high heart enzymes in my blood and a clean EKG. they admitted me into the icu unit and watched me for 2 days then put me on the floor for another day. the doc told me I had a mild heart attack and gave me meds and sent me home. he told me to resume activity as tolerated. I went to work that Monday and Tuesday and had the pressure again and my heart rate was irregular, so I went too a bigger city to the er.

Oh so it is different for children as I was in ICU and then changed to a reg room.....and while in ICU it was far too small for even a toilet it swung out from under the table next to the bed....then just enuff room for a chair on the other side of the bed and to walk around.... Sorry...but now we know.

My uncle had a heartattack a week ago, and went in 6 days later with a code blue called. He is surviving off of one artery which is significantly blocked and has 3 stents in it. He had a heart attack 20 years ago and had 5 bypasses. The dr says that he can't/wont opperate on his heart because it is too weak. He's been in ICU for 4 days now, off of O2 now and they are keeping him stable with meds. What are his options? pacemaker? I know hes not a canidate for a heart transplant.

I know before 34 weeks something like that they keep babys in icu .im 32 weeks 2days due in jan 6th but I have a feeling this baby will come in another few weeks I'm uncomforable, I'm dilated and have back pains unless I'm up doing stuff.

Since he came out of surgery he has been put in induced coma and on a ventilator his oxygen level is low and his lung is operating at a 23% capacity.. doctors think that he might developed infection and are giving him antibiotics for the past 3 days. My question is will his lung be able to improve and start working at a higher capacity?

Sorry, I should have been a bit more clear in my post.

My dad is 79 yrs old, he keep having afib-attacks, 2 in the last 6 weeks, landing him in ER then ICU, changing his medicines again, but can't get his heart back into rhythm. What can we do?

I can only speak for myself. I was not in ICU, but did spend almost a week in the hospital. I was given pain meds and I had a morphine pump (which lets your Mom push the button whenever the pain is too bad .. but it is timed not to allow her to do that too often.) I used the pump occasionally the first few days and was in good spirits. I was not allowed solid food until I moved my bowels .. which was a bit of a problem as the pain meds tend to constipate you. I was only allowed soft food ..

He also had symptoms of Myasthenia gravis, he could not open his eyes completely and have bad control over his eyelids. He is still in ICU. Is there a chance for him to come out of ICU and lead normal life with medicines and diet. Please someone reply me.

My wife came down with septic shock in December 2011. She was in ICU for 1 month. During the month, she received a multitude of antibiotics to kill the infection. In addition she had dialysis, plasma ferisus,, was on a feeding tube, and a ventilater. She then went through 3 weeks of Rehabilitation. She is gaining strength, but one of the more damaging effects was a substantial loss of hearing.

Hi thanks very much for your quick response, there is no other symptoms at all other then the tricuspid valve regurgitation which the consultant says is torrential flooding, we spent 6 weeks in ICU and another 2 on a ward. He is on 3 medications for the heart and is on the medicine indefinitely as he is now 8 months old.

I wasn't at NIH, but when *I* was in ICU, there was a computer, but only for the nurses. :-) It sounds like there are computers for you to use. Nice! Hopefully they are laptops because I don't see you getting out of bed to use the computer ;-) I had a TV in ICU, but I was SO SENSITIVE to any noise, that I couldn't stand it. I never turned it on until about an hour before they sent me to a regular room. Even then, it was very agitating.

Heart failure is an EF 29% or below. Six years ago, I was in ICU for several days with congested heart failure. The EF was 13-29% and blood backed up into the lungs causing edema (shortness of breath, dry cough, fast heart rate). The underlying cause was an enlarged left ventricle that decreased pumping strength, and with medication the heart returned to normal size and EF is now 59%. An EF of 40% shouldn't cause heart failure, but symptoms indicate a heart problem.

but he should be in pretty decent shape in the ICU and all ..... I am pretty ceertain that the Docs would be on the ball in that situation. Only good thing about requiring a hepatologists attention is that those guys are very sharp. The anesthesiologists are very good at juggling the meds around for avoiding that problem. They have learned a great deal in only the last several years. Will keep the boy in a prayer because thats a bad situation .......

I did do some research last night on this subject and in the 50s opiates were widely used for manic depression and there have also been recent hush hush experiments with opiates and depression. I was taking oapiates for a while and i tell u i was happier then but maybe cuz i was a little buzzed. but i functioned fine. where are u from? and what kind of dr do u go to? is it ur pcp or psyc dr?

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