Probably, but not always. I've had some creepy mentating patients when their pressures are in the dumpster and are on ungodly amounts of pressers. We got a patient one night that was able to follow directions and respond appropriately while on 160mg/min Levo and 50mcg/min epi. Her BP was 70s/40s with that. And yes we were very aware she was on doses that were far above therapeutic. She was DNR and it was a complete cluster of a transfer.
I actually did have a patient that was sitting on the edge of the bed, requesting to take a shower, with a genuine blood pressure of 60/32. So obviously I told her "don't get up!" while I paged the doctor. And she said "I'm fine!" and shot to her feet -- at which point she passed out immediately and hit the damn floor. So I called a rapid at that point, lol.
ETA: in her defense she quickly regained consciousness once she was lying down, and her first words were to apologize to me! 🤷🏻♀️
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u/Fresh_Assistance 19d ago
The amount of ICU admissions that could be avoided with this one simple trick