Pokemon or Prescription?
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Aha gotcha can’t be a real quiz. Vinblastine is only given IV. Not in pill form.
Chemo for all sorts of ugliness.
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Aha gotcha can’t be a real quiz. Vinblastine is only given IV. Not in pill form.
Chemo for all sorts of ugliness.
@bachophile said in Pokemon or Prescription?:
Vinblastine is only given IV.
Nasty, nasty drug, too. Is it still being used?
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@george-k absolutely
First line treatment in Hodgkins is ABVD, where the V is vinblastine
Also used frequently in testicular.
Vinca alkaloid. I always think of that when I plant vinca flowers. The periwinkle plant. How such nastiness from a plant which makes beautiful flowers.
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@george-k absolutely
First line treatment in Hodgkins is ABVD, where the V is vinblastine
Also used frequently in testicular.
Vinca alkaloid. I always think of that when I plant vinca flowers. The periwinkle plant. How such nastiness from a plant which makes beautiful flowers.
@bachophile the funny (sad?) thing is how, after not having any experience with internal medicine, chemotherapy, etc I am SO out of the loop with newer therapies and drugs.
Living in my cocoon of the OR shielded me from all the new stuff.
Nevertheless, I still got to play with cool machines, new potent-as-hell drugs, and stick catheters into people's hearts.
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@bachophile the funny (sad?) thing is how, after not having any experience with internal medicine, chemotherapy, etc I am SO out of the loop with newer therapies and drugs.
Living in my cocoon of the OR shielded me from all the new stuff.
Nevertheless, I still got to play with cool machines, new potent-as-hell drugs, and stick catheters into people's hearts.
@george-k ok now you will feel old. Not much use of swan ganz catheters anymore.
Plenty of ways to assess hemodynamics with less invasive means.
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@george-k ok now you will feel old. Not much use of swan ganz catheters anymore.
Plenty of ways to assess hemodynamics with less invasive means.
@bachophile said in Pokemon or Prescription?:
Not much use of swan ganz catheters anymore.
Yeah, they were going out of fashion when I retired. Some of our CV surgeons wanted to use them for measuring SvO2, others just used a CVP (via IJ).
Echos were just coming into popular use as I retired. Never acquired the skill to interpret them.
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Ultrasound in all its forms looks to me like a Rorschach test
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Ultrasound in all its forms looks to me like a Rorschach test
@bachophile said in Pokemon or Prescription?:
Ultrasound in all its forms looks to me like a Rorschach test
Indeed. I was pretty good with femoral nerve blocks. When ultrasound became available, I had no clue what I was looking at. Some of my partners were good with them.
Interscalene? Fuggedabboutit!
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