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Mon Feb 12 17:13:43 GMT 2007

""...why does this issue keep rearing its ugly head..."

PASG's.  The Trendelenburg position.  Atropine and asystole.
Hyperventilation and brain injury.  Iraq and 9/11."

Quote from a recent class about TBI-
"...so today hyperventilation is used only for short periods and mildly- 
that is 35-40 breaths per minute to achieve and ET PCO2 of around 22-25 
mmhg"

I wouldn't call it "mildly"

>From: "Bjorn, Pret" <pbjorn at emh.org>
>Reply-To: "Trauma &amp; Critical Care mailing list" 
><trauma-list at trauma.org>
>To: "Trauma &amp; Critical Care mailing list" <trauma-list at trauma.org>
>Subject: Steroids in SCI (was RE: (no subject))
>Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:06:03 -0500
>
>I see that everyone is rightly reluctant to pick at this scab.  Either
>we all thought it was put to rest, or we find it too tiresome to bother
>with.  Probably quite a lot of both.
>
>"...why does this issue keep rearing its ugly head..."
>
>PASG's.  The Trendelenburg position.  Atropine and asystole.
>Hyperventilation and brain injury.  Iraq and 9/11.
>
>Ignorance inspires, perpetuates, and vigorously defends myth.  See also
>ANECDOTE in the glossary.
>
>"...what evidence is there to give MP in acute SCI..."
>
>There is of course more evidence NOT to give it.  But in vivo, evidence
>and ignorance are evenly matched.
>
>"...is it considered efficacious..."
>
>No.  But then, that's only considering the evidence.
>
>Pret Bjorn, RN
>Bangor, ME USA
>
>
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>help why does this issue keep rearing its ugly head...what evidence is
>there to give MP in acute SCI?  Is it considered efficacious....
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