About TBI, cushings reflex and treatment

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Simon, Mike:

Atropine does not affect bradycardia accompanying brain death.

Sorry.  It's a clever notion, and a credit to both your dedication and your
creativity; but it doesn't work.

Pret

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike MacKinnon [mailto:mmackinnon at cox.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 3:06 PM
To: Trauma & Critical Care mailing list
Subject: Re: About TBI, cushings reflex and treatment


This was exactly what I was thinking. I have no illusions that atropine will
save the patient or fix cushings. I see it as avoiding asystole. With such
scant evidence for mannitol we dont carry it on the aircraft.



thanks simon

 

Mike MacKinnon CEN CFRN BSN RN

"I reject your reality and substitute it with my own!"

mmackinnon at cox.net

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