Hi,if there is someone working as OTT or in hospital, need to ask couple of questions as part of my friends course where he is stuck with couple of questions.
If there is no nitros oxide bottle available, what other gases you could recommend to anaesthetist if all other gases are available?
And Secondly, if you found that Nitrous Oxide bottle is faulty, who do you report and why?
Your help would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Mustard gas and dr seusse. Seriously though….
Dom took the NOS
I am only trying to help. This was my idea and my friend is not even aware of this post;)
Anaesthetists do not generally take advice from theatre technicians or anyone else. I find it hard to believe such a question is asked in a course.
Perhaps the question might be, why is there no N.O. available? As a theatre nurse, to my knowledge, there is no alternate to N.O.
Hi thanks for ur reply. My friend reserached online and said if medical air could be the answer?
Medical air is basically the same as what we breathe all day long.
And would you know who do you inform and why if u found nitrous oxide bottle faulty?
Ur help would me much appreciated if you could find this out as assignment submission is due end of business day tomorrow.
The answers should be in the course notes, maybe not directly spelled out since this isn't primary school level education, but it's supposed to make you think.
And would you know who do you inform and why if u found nitrous oxide bottle faulty?
Do you work or have you worked before? If you encountered faulty equipment, noticed a hazard or injured yourself, do you report it? To who?
to my knowledge, there is no alternate to N.O.
There's a bunch of alternatives. Ketamine is a dissociative anaesthetic, and certain patients have respiratory or circulatory conditions which make an alternative anaesthetic a safer choice.
A gaseous alternate is what I was talking about, sure there are IV drugs to use. And surely an theatre tech would not be involved in this choice. Medical air is not an anaesthetic.
The only thing is he has got a last chance to submit the correct answer again.
Quite sure Nitrous oxide was banned years ago.
In general, you normally report faulty things to whoever is responsible for maintaining them, or up the "chain of command" if whoever is responsible is not available.
If the fault occurs during a medical procedure, I'd have to assume there's someone "in charge", and they'd be the person to tell, wouldn't they?
I feel like OP is a janitor/cleaner at a hospital and planning on stealing Nitrous to get high, whilst replacing the bottle with something else so he doesn't get caught.
I must try to remember to ask my next anaesthetist if he/she obtained their medical knowledge by asking a friend to ask OzBargainers…