#EDtipoftheweek : it takes 5—10 min for hydrogen peroxide to reduce pathogens on a plastic surface. Fanning with a bedsheet will not speed up the process. Let them cook.

#EDtipoftheweek : if you are taking methadone, you are not detoxing. You might be recovering from a drug abuse disorder but detox is a whole other beast.

#EDtipoftheweek : just because the cardiac monitor says a rhythm is afib doesn’t mean it is afib. Tonight it was a heart block.

I couldn’t see the rhythm long enough to discern which definitively - saw it on a station monitor not an ECG, but I think it was Mobitz 2.

#EDtipoftheweek : when a nurse says they need a witness they most definitely are not asking for you to clap your hands and shout “Testify!”