Note to self… buy this book, and improve your chart reading skills.
by Malcolm Rosenberg, RN
with the help of:
– I. Wright Badlee, MD
– Hugh Kant Reed, MD
– Ida Cypher Scribbles, RN
$3.95
I have dealt with charts every single working day for the past fifteen years. During that time, it always seemed like there was one nurse who everyone would seek out if they were stuck. Its the nurse who could decipher any scribble, figure out why two different nephrologists were consulted on different days, or find a code status in the middle of the ER progress notes. This pamphlet will not transform you into that nurse, but it will plant the idea that chart reading is a learnable skill, that can be practiced and mastered.
Can you read this?
“When everybody was telling Viagra jokes, I felt the impulse to write a book explaining the subject.”
by Malcolm Rosenberg, RN & Ralph Zagha, MD
$7.95
I never said Viagra® was as important as arterial blood gases, heart sounds, hemodynamics or any of the topics covered in my nursing books. But the inspiration was the same.
A paragraph from the introduction best describes the book: “The goal of this book is to explain the physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology of an erection. We will look at how an erection works, why sometimes problems occur and how medication and treatment can address them. If you understand how erections work, you can seek treatment more intelligently when they don’t work.”
Excerpt from Expanding Pudental Artery chapter
You may remember that Viagra®, Cialis®, and Levitra® are phosphodiesterase inhibitors. They inhibit phosphodiesterase, namely PDE5. They help establish and maintain erections by “inhibiting” phosphodiesterase from stopping the second messenger as it tries to plug the calcium channel. I know that is confusing. Pictures show it better than words.
We have a new character,
The Inhibitor.
The Inhibitor is flying through the blood stream and sees phosphodiesterase stopping cGMP plug the calcium channel. He lands on the pudendal artery…
and he tells phosphodiesterase to get out of there…
so cGmp can plug up the calcium channel. Now we have an erection.
