[HSF] picture - not entirely OT

[gabi ford]

From: Tea Acuff <tacuff at swbell.net>
>Dig is not very useful any more. Now we can put patients that are 2-3 days 
>post op on IV drips with much newer and expensive drugs and that are 
>converted in a few days to a PO expensive drug all the while limiting the 
>strenuous effort of ambulation.
>With a dose of dig they may convert and there is no chance to bill or treat 
>the patient for several days duration. They might be discharged home.

{shriek}  What a mess that would make!!!

>The literature is replete that antiarrythmic drugs are much more useful to 
>the patient than simple rate control for most patients, which is why 
>cardiologists and now surgeons so much favor them.
>Or so i guess....caveat emptor.

Indeed.
You know what 'Deep Throat' said.......

Gabi, RN