The other day I was talking to a veteran CCU nurse. She told me that she worked at the hospital where the first defibrillations were studied and performed. Like many health care studies, the testing was done on animals - dogs in this case.
She then went on to tell me that one of the requirements for working in her CCU (back in the 1970’s) was that you actually had to defibrillate a dog to show that you were competent in that skill! Yes, the dogs were sedated before hand, but still.
Nurses see (and do) the craziest things.
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Heh heh. That amazes me. I guess we should be thankful for the sim-man.
Posted 05 Dec 2008 at 8:35 am ¶LOL
That makes me sad, I probably would have been fired, or had to transfer to a med-surg.
Posted 06 Dec 2008 at 3:16 pm ¶That is really interesting stuf
Posted 11 Dec 2008 at 12:30 pm ¶Was Michael Vick in charge of this program by any chance?
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