@@clarewhite3004 I like vent bro. That's new to me. I've heard vent jockey, booger buster, neb jockey, RT ninjas, sputum patrol, tank jockey, O2 pushers. I'm sure there's more. We know where all the potlucks are.
@@dr.floridamanphd Good point. I’m old and forget about the new dangled stuff. I actually old enough to remember when butt huts were first appeared and when restaurants asked if you wanted smoking or nonsmoking section
@@Jen39x I’ll be 42 on Monday. I remember smoking sections in restaurants but not at schools or other places. I know some movie theaters still had smoking balconies in the 80s but they weren’t in my area.
Sent this immediately to my dad who is a critical care pulmonologist and does sleep medicine. He called me back about 3 minutes after I sent it laughing and saying this was “very perceptive”
The resporatory therapist gag is ON POINT! These guys can be a bit hard to find, but the moment you really need one, they magically appear out of thin air. Or at least that how things were during my ICU rotation
As an ICU nurse, good god almighty I love our RT’s. They are ventilation wizards and their vents are magical cauldrons that I am only allowed to touch one button. O2 SUCTION!
@@taylorwrigley829 when I was doing my icu rotation, I happened to see a doctor that touched the settings for a vent. 5 second later, there's a terrified 6 foot tall male doctor being pressed into the wall by the 5 foot tall female RT who's reading him the riot act
We're usually hard to find because there are so few of us compared to everyone else, and depending on the hospital we're covering multiple wards/ICUs each
One of my residents back in the "older" vent days (like 10 years ago!) used to say the noise the vent alarm made was it saying "Get your a$$ in here." ! (anyone working with the older vents will know what I mean...)
@@DangerSquiggles As a non-medical person, but a patient of 71 years . . . no. ENTs seem to have more than enough to deal with well. It seems best to confine them to upper respiratory.
I have probably had sleep apnea my entire life. But I didn't get diagnosed with it until about 1997 with a really severe case of it. The doctor was a Pulmonologist and the company sent a Respiratory Therapist out to my house to do the set-up. The machines were a lot less sophisticated than they are today and wwwwwaaaayyy louder! The masks were a lot harder TOO and hurt my face. There was just no way I could use it, so I told them to come and take it back. I ended up losing a lot of weight and having a submucous resection of my inferior turbinates with a ENT surgeon. Then, I got transferred over to Neurology where they found that I didn't have any REM stage of sleep at ALL! ( This is over decades) The Sleep medicine doctor advised me to switch psychiatric medications and I went back on CPAP treatment again. Then, I found out from my Dentist that I have Bruxism and have ground my teeth almost flat! NOW I'm currently wearing a night guard and using nasal pillows for my CPAP treatment. WHEW, what a long strange trip it's been! I'm currently about 159 lb. Down from my highest weight of 387 lb. And still hoping to continue towards a better way to keep breathing, sleeping and living! Thanks to ALL those who have helped me and those who are training to help others in these kinds of situations! Never give up on people no matter how long or what difficulties they might be facing! Warmest regards from Greensboro, NC USA.
You're reminding me so much of when my wonderful critical care pulmo hit burn out and ended up a sleep doctor at another hospital. I loved, loved, loved that man. He was the first one to think I had mastocytosis instead of crazy. Finally got testing and a diagnosis.
We have to be. I've gotten too many calls from panicked RNs/Residents/Attendings along the lines of "I tried fiddling with the settings and now it's alarming, the patient's sats are dropping, and I don't know what I did"
As a former RRT, you are spot on Dr. G. And if any interns/new residents are reading this - don’t touch the vent. No matter what. Seriously. You could lose a finger. 😂
Attendings are allowed to LOOK at the vent, just don't touch it!! And if the alarm goes off, even if you didn't do anything, RT appears and you are definitely in trouble!!
Respiratory therapists are awesome! It was a respiratory therapist that saved my mom’s life in the ER 16 months ago. My sister (an OBGyn resident) was with my mom in the ER and she managed to flagged down an RT because she was very worried. It was the RT that identified how critical my mom was and shortly after she was intubated and on her way to the ICU. ❤
I am a 40 year old female with Cystic Fibrosis and I love this video! 😁 I am so grateful for my CF Dr.’s and especially the RT’s when I am in the hospital. 🥰
When I became an RT in 1980, the average lifespan for CF was 12. To see you posting your age brought tears to my eyes. We have come a long way. Bless you.
When I worked in NICU many moons ago, a resident told me to wean my premie to 19%. I told him to get out of my nursery and not come back without his attending.
I love your stuff Dr G. As an OD with a Jonathan I really appreciate the ophthalmologist, but you capture all the different docs so well. Thank you for what you do.
Our ER got a full ICU and a Intermediate Care Unit. They always make fun of us ED Nurses, but we have to do ICU Care in every specialty not just in a few like the ICU Floors do.
My critical care anesthesia ventilator settings were always different than the pulmonology/ICU doc's settings. Fortunately I had most of the respiratory therapists on my side.
Welp, as a 32-year-old Cystic Fibrosis patient, I'm humbly reminded to always be incredibly patient and understanding of my apparently very burnt-out doctors and team. And here I thought I just clicked on this to laugh.
I'm a critical care paramedic that frequently transports ventilated pts and for some reason the RTs are THE BEST. Always happy to help and/or strangle you with a circuit depending on what you do.
Dr G you hit one out of the park again! Rings true with everything I learned about ICU respiratory medicine as a patient with pneumonia. I was never intubated mercifully but one of my favorite games became fiddling with the high flow bipap just to mess with the RT's. They would blame the nurses however as I recall...
My mom died from COPD issues. I have a lot of experience with pulmonologist doctors. Cool dudes. Great senses of humor. And oddly all of them did acting in plays as hobbies
The fun thing about pulm/crit care as a med student is that you're always planning to be there for one and end up doing more than you wanted of the other.
I am no medical doctor but I do love watching you. You do it almost to the level I can understand and it is soooo funny. All of my doctor visits I have I ask for they know of you. A few months ago I had shoulder surgery and I showed the ortho surgeon a few of your orthopedic skits and he almost fell on the floor laughing. You are very talented and lucky to have such a understanding wife
I feel like the pulmonologist has such extreme burnout from icu that we don't even notice like we do with family medicine, they've evolved past burnout
Correct you have no idea ! Many of these patients are so sick with so many complications! Burn out is an under statement. Seems to always be understaffed.
Oh, gods, the boarding in the ER! Too accurate... I'm a rad tech, but for some reason my hospital system puts us in the same scrub colors as respiratory/cardio, and our dept managers often cover for each other. So I end up working pretty closely with them. These jokes mirror their complaints too well, lol!
You are a genius. Please never stop making videos! I am an ER doc in India and I am always awestruck how your take on the different branches are accurate across the globe! 🙌🏻
Respiratory therapists really are the rarest breed among ancillary medical professionals. They literally appear out of thin air as soon as a ventilator so much as wheezes then vanish as soon as they finish being passive-aggressively annoyed that you summoned them into existence
I see that RT is putting their selective hearing to good use. Here's a sampling of words you can use to summon your own Respiratory Therapist: PEEP, BIPAP, CPAP, ventilator, nebulizer, "I can intubate," "I'm going to turn your oxygen down/up/off," and "Your O2 is ..."
In Canada back in the ‘80s, we had only 1 RT for the whole hospital. RNs did all vent changes, treatments, Trach care etc. Fast forward I moved to the US and worked in a trauma ICU. new vent settings were ordered so I changed the settings. RT was upset and asked who touched his vent. I told him new orders were placed so I changed them and after explaining RNs manage their own vents because we only have one RT at night did he calm down. That was when I learned the US has 1 RT for each ICU plus floor RTs.
You were AMAZING at American Thoracic Society today. Would have loved to meet you!! Thank you so much for your phenomenal and touching keynote speech!!!
We dont have respiratory therapists in Australia, the RN does it all. Regardless, I feel mimicking the Drager vent alarm sound with your mouth will summon either of them relatively quickly.
Just reminds me doing a radiography placement and being warned about touching the ECMO patients. I believe multiple specialties would've murdered us if we touched them in the name of a chest x-ray 😬
I once told an RN that I adjusted her propofol, and as she was getting her hackles up, then I said "Don't touch my vent and I won't touch your meds." In my state, only RTs are licensed to touch ventilators, including docs.
IT's every doctor's responsibiliy to be irrationally angry at the other specialities for doing their own speciality wrong. And do I ever excel at that XD
Oh my gosh!!! If there is something more explosive than LOL that was me. "They become sleep medicine doctors" I couldn't even finish the video, too funny, lol.
I love how he said that he leaves the critical care pulmonology patients in the ER for 87hrs and then complains that they did it all wrong! That's so true! Poor ER nurses who once were primadonnas are now having to be treated like all the other nurses! They fled from floor nursing and ICU to ER to avoid this kind of dump on you treatment! Welcome back to the trenches!
@@DangerSquiggles No it’s not condescending but the truth. The ER nurses just treat and street, or transfer or admit. Now they are having to care for patients for hours sometimes days as a floor nurse along with their ER duties because rooms are hard to get at times. Sucks for all! Doctors, nurses, patients, pharmacy, housekeeping.
I was an ICU nurse for 30yrs and a night shift House Supervisor for 12yrs where I had to fill in as a triage nurse when ER was too busy or the floor when understaffed. I was also the one to staff the house and to go to all Code Blues, pharmacist, engineer, security, dietary, problem solver, and had to take, get, and to report going off. Often to my immediate boss. I had to take incoming calls from other institutions and determine whether we could accept another patient. When there was a complaint I had to handle those and when someone died I had to call the Organ Donation line and the ME along with the added paperwork! I know what I’m talking about!
The interesting thing about emergency pulmonology is adapting when the patient doesn't have a face. A lot of the standard equipment requires a face.and blood not going down the throat.
As an ED worker, not only are ED docs supposed to manage 1 ICU patient but juggle multiple, all while taking care of toe pain or someone that threw up once.
I just love how if you make certain sounds or noises in a hospital, certain pple will just show up, drop the words "code blue" and suddenly every ER and heart doc is right there!! 😁😁
If you ever hear a concerned "What up, vent bro?", you know who's getting admitted next.
omg fat embolism’s the worst🤮
as an RT I don't see or interact with the Ortho bros unless it's waiting in line at the cafeteria.
They probably mistake Anesthesia for RTs too😋
Nahhh, vent bro isn't pulmonology, vent bro is RT. Pulmonology usually knows better than to play with RT's machines.
@@clarewhite3004 I like vent bro. That's new to me. I've heard vent jockey, booger buster, neb jockey, RT ninjas, sputum patrol, tank jockey, O2 pushers. I'm sure there's more. We know where all the potlucks are.
Oddly enough, that respiratory therapist is probably on a cigarette break 😂
Not as much as they used to be though
@@Jen39x duh! They vape now 😂
😂🔝
@@dr.floridamanphd Good point. I’m old and forget about the new dangled stuff. I actually old enough to remember when butt huts were first appeared and when restaurants asked if you wanted smoking or nonsmoking section
@@Jen39x I’ll be 42 on Monday. I remember smoking sections in restaurants but not at schools or other places. I know some movie theaters still had smoking balconies in the 80s but they weren’t in my area.
Anesthesia's cope towel never fails to make me laugh :D
I wonder if Linus Van Pelt eventually became an anesthesiologist when he grew up.
the laugh i made was _inhuman_ when that happened
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "Always know where your towel is."
Their emotional support drape
Cope towel 😂
babe wake up new dr glaucomflecken video just dropped
Thank you for waking me up to such good news 😁 Didn't know we call each other names like that but I'll roll with it babe 😘
@@rhabeldibabeldi6812 and thus the greatest love story begun
And with new characters!
If you keep waking them up every time a new video drops, at some point they're definitely going to need that sleep medicine doc.
@@tejaswoman i have a chip implanted to my head that notifys if a new video drops and releases adrenaline
Sent this immediately to my dad who is a critical care pulmonologist and does sleep medicine. He called me back about 3 minutes after I sent it laughing and saying this was “very perceptive”
Did he calculate your STOP BANG score yet?
@@sebastianheine378 haha probably, but only mentally. I’m currently at low risk for OSA.
I came here to say that! 😇
@@RainbowMeltedCrayons low risk for the Office of Special Affairs?
Family Medicine: "Just two? That sounds nice."
Waiting for the pulmonologists to come in and say, “actually it’s pulmonary, not pulmonology”
It’s Pulmonary medicine AND phtiseology
My professors and preceptors were Pneumologists
I think English speaking Canada is the only place in the world that calls it respirology.
Respiratory and Sleep Medicine in my neck of the woods.
🤓👆
The measurement of the FEV1 by pretending to laugh at a joke was brilliant!
I was waiting for the rules of the ICU: Air goes in and out, blood goes round and round. Don't touch the vents and don't touch the pumps.
"Keep the heart full of blood, keep the lung full of air"
who, may I ask, gets to touch the vents and pumps?
@@DangerSquiggles Respiratory therapists and the nurses.
@@gkd1982that part
I just made up a whole song in my head from this comment, lolol
The resporatory therapist gag is ON POINT! These guys can be a bit hard to find, but the moment you really need one, they magically appear out of thin air. Or at least that how things were during my ICU rotation
As an ICU nurse, good god almighty I love our RT’s. They are ventilation wizards and their vents are magical cauldrons that I am only allowed to touch one button. O2 SUCTION!
@@taylorwrigley829 when I was doing my icu rotation, I happened to see a doctor that touched the settings for a vent. 5 second later, there's a terrified 6 foot tall male doctor being pressed into the wall by the 5 foot tall female RT who's reading him the riot act
Or, you can think about changing the vent settings, and they roar into the room…
We're usually hard to find because there are so few of us compared to everyone else, and depending on the hospital we're covering multiple wards/ICUs each
In my corner of the woods there are no RTs. The ventilators are managed by intensivists (who also do anaesthesia) or emergency medicine physicians.
As a respiratory care student I am extremely happy to be finally mentioned in your videos. That PEEP was hilarious 😂😂😂
One of my residents back in the "older" vent days (like 10 years ago!) used to say the noise the vent alarm made was it saying "Get your a$$ in here." ! (anyone working with the older vents will know what I mean...)
When he said board the patients in the ED for 86 hours until a bed opens up- I felt that! So true!
Hey can we make sure Phil's last name is Prescription and middle name with Adam?
So his name will be 🤣🤣🤣
This is brilliant 😂
Lololol TY
This is the best site love the laughs make my stressful day brighter ❤
I thought the joke was intended to be “Phil A dam Prescription”.
@@henriquelaydner4080joke not intended, but nice catch!
LMAO this makes sense as to why the 2 sleep doctors working near me are both coincidentally pulmonologist
Just email this video to them
Given that OSAS is pretty significant respiratory diagnosis it’s rather sensible
@@mattender8323 To be fair, anatomically it is ENT territory.
@@DangerSquiggles As a non-medical person, but a patient of 71 years . . . no. ENTs seem to have more than enough to deal with well. It seems best to confine them to upper respiratory.
I don't think that's a coincidence, I'm pretty sure it's a subspecialty
RT here. Thanks for the shout out. We do respond to a good loud PEEP. 😅
"Peep" 😂😅😂😅 that did it for me. Oh goodness!
😂
english isn't my first language ... what does it mean ?
@@matteparent2468 there are ways to find out..change a digital thermostat, vent control, oven settings in a professional kitchen.
@@matteparent2468positive end expiratory pressure
As a respiratory therapist this is the funniest one yet. Dont touch my vents!
I have probably had sleep apnea my entire life. But I didn't get diagnosed with it until about 1997 with a really severe case of it. The doctor was a Pulmonologist and the company sent a Respiratory Therapist out to my house to do the set-up. The machines were a lot less sophisticated than they are today and wwwwwaaaayyy louder! The masks were a lot harder TOO and hurt my face. There was just no way I could use it, so I told them to come and take it back. I ended up losing a lot of weight and having a submucous resection of my inferior turbinates with a ENT surgeon. Then, I got transferred over to Neurology where they found that I didn't have any REM stage of sleep at ALL! ( This is over decades) The Sleep medicine doctor advised me to switch psychiatric medications and I went back on CPAP treatment again. Then, I found out from my Dentist that I have Bruxism and have ground my teeth almost flat! NOW I'm currently wearing a night guard and using nasal pillows for my CPAP treatment. WHEW, what a long strange trip it's been! I'm currently about 159 lb. Down from my highest weight of 387 lb. And still hoping to continue towards a better way to keep breathing, sleeping and living! Thanks to ALL those who have helped me and those who are training to help others in these kinds of situations! Never give up on people no matter how long or what difficulties they might be facing! Warmest regards from Greensboro, NC USA.
Respiratory therapists are so overwhelmed and undervalued.
Everyone in medicine is overwhelmed and undervalued.
I'm an ED nurse and the part about critical care patients in the ED for 87 hours was so on point!
We should introduce otolaryngology - just so that we can learn to pronounce otolaryngology. bonus if the character hates being called ENT
Don't forget the rhino!
Otolaryngologist in future video [probably]: can you name another specialty that's in charge of FIVE holes? [awkward silence] Didn't think so.
You're reminding me so much of when my wonderful critical care pulmo hit burn out and ended up a sleep doctor at another hospital. I loved, loved, loved that man. He was the first one to think I had mastocytosis instead of crazy. Finally got testing and a diagnosis.
My RT Week shirt this year is going to read:
"Save a life, you're a hero.
Save 100 lives, you're a nurse.
Save 100 nurses, you're an RT."
I love your videos. When the respiratory therapist responds to PEEP. I’m crying. 😂
You captured my dad’s entire career trajectory beautifully, well done
Can confirm. Respiratory therapists can be as protective as NICU nurses
💯
We have to be. I've gotten too many calls from panicked RNs/Residents/Attendings along the lines of "I tried fiddling with the settings and now it's alarming, the patient's sats are dropping, and I don't know what I did"
Don’t forget Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, two very different specialties that just get collectively called “the lab.”
As a former RRT, you are spot on Dr. G. And if any interns/new residents are reading this - don’t touch the vent. No matter what. Seriously. You could lose a finger. 😂
::quietly switches from VC to VC+/PRVC::
Don't even stand on the same side of the bed as the vent! They'll tackle you to the floor.
Presumably they are permitted to admire it from a distance, provided appropriate reverence is maintained.
Attendings are allowed to LOOK at the vent, just don't touch it!! And if the alarm goes off, even if you didn't do anything, RT appears and you are definitely in trouble!!
Exactly.
Respiratory therapists are awesome!
It was a respiratory therapist that saved my mom’s life in the ER 16 months ago. My sister (an OBGyn resident) was with my mom in the ER and she managed to flagged down an RT because she was very worried. It was the RT that identified how critical my mom was and shortly after she was intubated and on her way to the ICU. ❤
0:42 "okay". Every student on every rotation just wanting to go home and sleep.
I am a 40 year old female with Cystic Fibrosis and I love this video! 😁 I am so grateful for my CF Dr.’s and especially the RT’s when I am in the hospital. 🥰
When I became an RT in 1980, the average lifespan for CF was 12. To see you posting your age brought tears to my eyes. We have come a long way. Bless you.
I’m a respiratory therapist, and nothing will make me perk up my ears more than hearing a nurse or intensivist mentioning PEEP.
lol the therapist’s name is peep
For those who don’t know it stands for Positive end-expiratory pressure
This was the answer I came here to find. 😂
Also could be taken to refer to the "beep" alarm that warns that a ventilator patient is in trouble!
Or because RT, using selective hearing, heard "PEEP" and quickly popped up because they were needed.
When I worked in NICU many moons ago, a resident told me to wean my premie to 19%. I told him to get out of my nursery and not come back without his attending.
Good for you. It is surprising how many other medical professionals skipped class on O2 day.
As an ICU nurse I can infact confirm that respiratory therapists will murder you if you adjust vent setting 😂
I am pulm/CC/sleep med. he’s spot on as usual. And never touch the vent!
I love your stuff Dr G. As an OD with a Jonathan I really appreciate the ophthalmologist, but you capture all the different docs so well. Thank you for what you do.
I thought instantly of hem/onc the moment he said two specialties.
'Then we become sleep medicine doctors.' ROFLMAO
Our ER got a full ICU and a Intermediate Care Unit. They always make fun of us ED Nurses, but we have to do ICU Care in every specialty not just in a few like the ICU Floors do.
I love my pulmonologist. Thanks for giving this specialty some love.
Respiratory Therapist hear and I approve of this message.
My critical care anesthesia ventilator settings were always different than the pulmonology/ICU doc's settings. Fortunately I had most of the respiratory therapists on my side.
My dad is a pulmologist he mostly treads tuberculosis in a specialist tuberculosis clinic
Welp, as a 32-year-old Cystic Fibrosis patient, I'm humbly reminded to always be incredibly patient and understanding of my apparently very burnt-out doctors and team.
And here I thought I just clicked on this to laugh.
Congratulations on reaching 32!. I hope the newer CF drugs help you have many, many more years.
Laughing -- therapeutic as heck! (Best wishes to you!)
Ditto
Dr. Glauc I just graduated med school today!!! I’m about to be a real Dr. Bill Bill!
Congrats!
Congrats!
I'm a critical care paramedic that frequently transports ventilated pts and for some reason the RTs are THE BEST. Always happy to help and/or strangle you with a circuit depending on what you do.
Dr G you hit one out of the park again! Rings true with everything I learned about ICU respiratory medicine as a patient with pneumonia. I was never intubated mercifully but one of my favorite games became fiddling with the high flow bipap just to mess with the RT's. They would blame the nurses however as I recall...
My mom died from COPD issues. I have a lot of experience with pulmonologist doctors. Cool dudes. Great senses of humor. And oddly all of them did acting in plays as hobbies
Finally! Been waiting for the respiratory guy to turn up.
The "PEEP!" made me laugh aloud. 😂😂 Thanks for helping me get through my sickness, doc!
Finally we meet the Pulmonologist!! Thank you
As an ICU RN, I have soooo many people I now need to show this to!
The fun thing about pulm/crit care as a med student is that you're always planning to be there for one and end up doing more than you wanted of the other.
I love how the Pulmonologist didn't even try to make a good ventilator alarm at the end 😂😂😂
How about when the pulmonologist changes the vent settings and doesnt tell anyone?
Doesn't write orders or ABG's then gets angry when RT changes it back or calls them out.
As an RT, yes, we will... don't touch the vent
I am no medical doctor but I do love watching you. You do it almost to the level I can understand and it is soooo funny. All of my doctor visits I have I ask for they know of you. A few months ago I had shoulder surgery and I showed the ortho surgeon a few of your orthopedic skits and he almost fell on the floor laughing. You are very talented and lucky to have such a understanding wife
I feel like the pulmonologist has such extreme burnout from icu that we don't even notice like we do with family medicine, they've evolved past burnout
Correct you have no idea ! Many of these patients are so sick with so many complications! Burn out is an under statement. Seems to always be understaffed.
Shots fired at anesthesia!
No worries, it's not inaccurate, and we generally like our jobs so whatevs.
@@rcranes2227 Oh I know, I'm a CRNA. Anesthesia is god tier.
Oh, gods, the boarding in the ER! Too accurate...
I'm a rad tech, but for some reason my hospital system puts us in the same scrub colors as respiratory/cardio, and our dept managers often cover for each other. So I end up working pretty closely with them. These jokes mirror their complaints too well, lol!
You are a genius. Please never stop making videos! I am an ER doc in India and I am always awestruck how your take on the different branches are accurate across the globe! 🙌🏻
You posted this right as i started having an asthma flare!
yooo me too!
First time I'm ever early to a video. ^_^ I love these Dr. G!! Thank you!!! (I'm not in any medical field whatsoever, but I love these vids!!)
Brb spamming this link to every RT I know. (Neuro/covid pcu nurse here, they're my heroes)
I'm an RT and the peep joke was *chef's kiss*
What up, vent bro!
I will forever and always yell PEEP when I see respiratory now
You and your wife are such GEMs ❤❤thank you for making us laugh and providing us education. Please know your followers love you
Respiratory therapists really are the rarest breed among ancillary medical professionals. They literally appear out of thin air as soon as a ventilator so much as wheezes then vanish as soon as they finish being passive-aggressively annoyed that you summoned them into existence
We are in short supply nationally, for many reasons.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 the accuracy!
Passive? Nope. Aggressive? Yep. Speaking only personally.
I also have the laser mom eyes. Make you jump outta your Danskos.
I see that RT is putting their selective hearing to good use. Here's a sampling of words you can use to summon your own Respiratory Therapist: PEEP, BIPAP, CPAP, ventilator, nebulizer, "I can intubate," "I'm going to turn your oxygen down/up/off," and "Your O2 is ..."
My mom just got home after 6 months in the hospital on/off/on/off/on/off vent, pneumothorax, and C diff. Thank you Stanford Pulmonology!
In Canada back in the ‘80s, we had only 1 RT for the whole hospital. RNs did all vent changes, treatments, Trach care etc. Fast forward I moved to the US and worked in a trauma ICU. new vent settings were ordered so I changed the settings. RT was upset and asked who touched his vent. I told him new orders were placed so I changed them and after explaining RNs manage their own vents because we only have one RT at night did he calm down. That was when I learned the US has 1 RT for each ICU plus floor RTs.
As a CVICU nurse I can’t wait for the CTS doc appearance. 😂 And let’s not forget cardiology vs interventional vs CTS…..
A friend is a respiratory therapist in the ICU and all I ever hear about are ventilators
I had a friend in med school that touched a ventilator... Rip my buddy. He's been missed.
Great keynote speech at the ATS opening ceremony! One of my favorites and I was so lucky to see you in person!
He should do a video where hospital staff are eating the Easter Peep candies and keep saying PEEP and it attracts all the respiratory therapists. 😂
You were AMAZING at American Thoracic Society today. Would have loved to meet you!! Thank you so much for your phenomenal and touching keynote speech!!!
We dont have respiratory therapists in Australia, the RN does it all.
Regardless, I feel mimicking the Drager vent alarm sound with your mouth will summon either of them relatively quickly.
Why do I LOVE these vids?!?! RN for 30 yrs….thats it! 😂
Yep, RN 40 yrs here. These skits feed my soul.
Just reminds me doing a radiography placement and being warned about touching the ECMO patients. I believe multiple specialties would've murdered us if we touched them in the name of a chest x-ray 😬
Yep, I used to work as an ICU nurse. The RT said "I don't touch your IV pumps, don't touch my vent"
I once told an RN that I adjusted her propofol, and as she was getting her hackles up, then I said "Don't touch my vent and I won't touch your meds." In my state, only RTs are licensed to touch ventilators, including docs.
IT's every doctor's responsibiliy to be irrationally angry at the other specialities for doing their own speciality wrong. And do I ever excel at that XD
People often laugh at callbacks in comedy routines but I can't recall humor where a laugh itself is the whole callback. Nicely done!
Finally, Dr. G is giving pulmonologists some love!
The fact that you know the RTs are hard to find and they will murder you if you touch the ventilator, that's gold!
I can’t believe how accurate this is.
Damn straight, don't touch the ventilator! -RRT
I was waiting for the ER nod and im glad you didnt disappoint
Oh my gosh!!! If there is something more explosive than LOL that was me. "They become sleep medicine doctors" I couldn't even finish the video, too funny, lol.
I love how he said that he leaves the critical care pulmonology patients in the ER for 87hrs and then complains that they did it all wrong! That's so true! Poor ER nurses who once were primadonnas are now having to be treated like all the other nurses! They fled from floor nursing and ICU to ER to avoid this kind of dump on you treatment! Welcome back to the trenches!
You sound a bit condescending here I think. I'm not sure that was your intention.
@@DangerSquiggles No it’s not condescending but the truth. The ER nurses just treat and street, or transfer or admit. Now they are having to care for patients for hours sometimes days as a floor nurse along with their ER duties because rooms are hard to get at times. Sucks for all! Doctors, nurses, patients, pharmacy, housekeeping.
I was an ICU nurse for 30yrs and a night shift House Supervisor for 12yrs where I had to fill in as a triage nurse when ER was too busy or the floor when understaffed. I was also the one to staff the house and to go to all Code Blues, pharmacist, engineer, security, dietary, problem solver, and had to take, get, and to report going off. Often to my immediate boss. I had to take incoming calls from other institutions and determine whether we could accept another patient. When there was a complaint I had to handle those and when someone died I had to call the Organ Donation line and the ME along with the added paperwork! I know what I’m talking about!
The interesting thing about emergency pulmonology is adapting when the patient doesn't have a face. A lot of the standard equipment requires a face.and blood not going down the throat.
As an ED worker, not only are ED docs supposed to manage 1 ICU patient but juggle multiple, all while taking care of toe pain or someone that threw up once.
Putting that Twitter discussion about Light's criteria and pleural fluid to good use!
I just love how if you make certain sounds or noises in a hospital, certain pple will just show up, drop the words "code blue" and suddenly every ER and heart doc is right there!! 😁😁
This reverberated through my soul.
Laughed past my fvc for this one.
This was perfect lol!! 😂😂😂😂 I was hoping to see the pulmonary bit !!
Another excellent addition to The Lore !
Just make this sound “boop boop beep BEEBUM, badum”. It’s the song of the Bennett 980
As a Respiratory therapist myself, I will in fact...be quite upset if you touch my ventilator ;) Thank you Dr. G for acknowledging RT's :)