You've probably heard that Bicarbonate has to turn into CO2 to raise the pH.
“Don’t give bicarb if you can’t increase ventilation.” But why?!
How much CO2 is there in an amp of sodium bicarbonate? Hos much does it raise pH? And how long does it last?
A 🧵 all about our ICU frenemy NaHCO3
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For #Juneteenth: 70+ years after the Civil War, the WPA's Federal Writers' Project began interviewing elderly Americans who remembered being enslaved. These moving narratives & photos are now held here at the Library.
Narratives: www.loc.gov/collections/...
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Pretty amazing they were doing it to begin with.
Every hospital has a hallway to the old hospital nobody visits anymore.
Nobody wants to do that oral care
I hope RFK Jr gets discharged home soon.
The solution here is going to be 3 million gallons of bleach and nobody will be able to go near it without their eyes burning.