ENS 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Patient Safety, Earlobe, Monark
30 Sep 2016
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Experimenter 2: patient safety responsible for touching patient and encouraging the patient, cpr minimum, bp monitoring, borg ratings, etc, responsible for running and monitoring ecg, gas exchange, etc, cpr minimum. Physician supervision: always in the case of high-risk patients or first laboratory visit, in building may be sufficient. Rules vary from lab-to-lab on lower-risk cases following initial assessment. Start cpr (100 bpm: experimenter 2. Help guide first responders: physician supervision. Does what it says on the tin. Very unlikely to have death or hospitalizations during test. Treadmill: (+) familiar, (+) ubiquitous in laboratories, (+) easy to calibrate, (-) loads of movement artifact. Point to minor things that are uncomfortable. Spit out mouth piece if serious issue (nausea, light-headed, chest paint, etc. : reminders through each phase of test. What"s going on, where they are on the treadmill, etc. Ecg preparation and placement: shave and abrade, ag/agcl, check gel, most labs use mason-likar modification for cpet.
