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so same as train brakes in a way
Trains slow down and use the engine at a slower pace. You don't have a back up heart.
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Depends on if you think in purely capitalistic terms (most but not all Americans) or not (again, most Europeans). I mean one way to think about it is the sidewalk is exploitable by businesses as a potential source of revenue for people who want to ride electric scooters (and other businesses that directly grow the economy) and they can pay lobbyists who drive the engine of American economic growth (lol), whereas you…
Dude. Nobody talks like this. Sidewalks are free. Roads are free except when tolled. The library is free. Facebook is free. This is a ridiculous conversation.
I recently had a family member in the intensive care unit (ICU) for over a month in Austin, Texas. I quickly learned my main contribution would be protecting her sleep when I saw she hadn't slept in days because of the constant interruptions. She went from reasonable and compliant in taking her medication, to extremely irritated and noncompliant with the doctors. Of course I could see this was due to sleep deprivatio…
> intensive care unit (ICU) There are only two reasons for someone to be in an ICU: they require a therapy no other floor will administer, or their condition/therapy requires very frequent administration/titration/observation. These two reasons frequently overlap. Sleep isn’t optional in general. It’s optional in the ICU, because the premise is “if you don’t need this level of attention to survive, you absolutely sho…
I’ve been hospitalised 7 times. In New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, and Singapore. Aside from the first day/night after surgery, I’ve never felt like Hospitals are against slept?!? My Wife had a c-section in October. Again, other than first day/night after surgery, never felt like we were interrupted all the time. Is this article about America or something?
It very much depends on what's wrong with you. I've been hospitalised multiple times. Most of the times were fine, but once was neurosurgery, and I'd be woken up at regular intervals throughout the night to answer "What's your name? Where are you? What year is it? How many fingers am I holding up?" At some point there must be a crossover between the risk of an undetected problem vs the risk inherent in lack of sleep.…
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The birth of our first child was a very good lesson in assertiveness for me. I learned that as the spouse, you're basically the only one with a full overview of the whole process. In the hospital, shifts change, they're taking care of multiple births simultaneously, and I'm the only one who knows how my wife feels. That gives you a powerful mandate to do whatever is necessary to take care of your partner. So absolute…
s/oxytocin/oxycontin/
Last Halloween in Toronto I got a (spooky) appendectomy, and although they were not coming to check on me, I could not sleep because I was in a loud room (the patient beside me had his whole immediate family watching over him, and my mind was awake, trying to decide whether they were speaking Brazillian or Portuguese) with bright overhead lights. I normally sleep with earplugs, but in the sort of rush I was, getting in the ambulance, I neglected to bring a pair. I managed to flag down a nurse to get me a pair of earplugs after five hours of trying to get to sleep.
If they have to come check on you, they could at least make it possible to rest when they're not checking on you.
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> intensive care unit (ICU) There are only two reasons for someone to be in an ICU: they require a therapy no other floor will administer, or their condition/therapy requires very frequent administration/titration/observation. These two reasons frequently overlap. Sleep isn’t optional in general. It’s optional in the ICU, because the premise is “if you don’t need this level of attention to survive, you absolutely sho…
I think it is absolutely standard in that situation to at least take vitals every couple/few hours, no way around it. It's annoying to be woken up so often, but it's done for good reasons.
That’s cost effective for the hospital but simply not viable longer term. To be clear waking someone up every 2.5 - 3 hours is very different from waking them up every 2.5 hours and another 2+ random times during the night.
As long as somone is only in the ICU for 72 hours it’s not a huge deal, but start talking a week and it’s a significant issue.
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You were dealing with doctors and nurses, right? One group runs a gauntlet of fire by sleep deprivation during pre-med training: with on-call work hours up to 120 hours a week. And the other group are typically on shift rotas so their sleep patterns are permanently disrupted. I'm going to call it for them being oblivious to the sleep requirements of ordinary human beings, because these professions are self-selecting…
>One group runs a gauntlet of fire by sleep deprivation during pre-med training: with on-call work hours up to 120 hours a week. I would argue this is the source of injury and death to the patients that needs to be addressed rather than powered through in some sort of macho hazing ritual. Anecdotally a very tired doctor is allegedly how my wife lost her mother.
I'm sorry about your mother in law regardless.
I recently had a family member in the intensive care unit (ICU) for over a month in Austin, Texas. I quickly learned my main contribution would be protecting her sleep when I saw she hadn't slept in days because of the constant interruptions. She went from reasonable and compliant in taking her medication, to extremely irritated and noncompliant with the doctors. Of course I could see this was due to sleep deprivatio…
You were dealing with doctors and nurses, right? One group runs a gauntlet of fire by sleep deprivation during pre-med training: with on-call work hours up to 120 hours a week. And the other group are typically on shift rotas so their sleep patterns are permanently disrupted. I'm going to call it for them being oblivious to the sleep requirements of ordinary human beings, because these professions are self-selecting…
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You were dealing with doctors and nurses, right? One group runs a gauntlet of fire by sleep deprivation during pre-med training: with on-call work hours up to 120 hours a week. And the other group are typically on shift rotas so their sleep patterns are permanently disrupted. I'm going to call it for them being oblivious to the sleep requirements of ordinary human beings, because these professions are self-selecting…
Nurses are a lot more than just shift change workers, and their nursing school requirements are a lot higher than you seem to believe.