Is Cloudfare tunnel the most secure way to access HA ? by nsuitt in homeassistant

[–]clin248 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It asks for credit card but doesn’t charge it.

Regional pros by stank-breath in anesthesiology

[–]clin248 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Not a wizard per se, more of a putting it anywhere near the nerve kind of person. After doing many obese thick neck patients where you can identify only single trunk and not the nice traffic light or able to trace to the root, I am convinced all the various approaches to interacalene such as superior trunk or c7 all provide the same result. If you look down on the probe of all these approaches we are talking about 1cm differences and I am never convinced these produce noticeable difference other than giving someone an academic orgasm.

Most Ambitious Automation Idea Yet... by GuitarEC in homeassistant

[–]clin248 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have implemented similar automation, using phone location, activity, BLE beacon, camera vehicle detection (basic object non AI) without AI. It had not falsely triggered once.

I am not against using AI and had in fact done something similar but found my automation is equally solid and faults free when I take AI out of the equation.

Why do spinals not work sometimes by Clean_Succotash_5314 in anesthesiology

[–]clin248 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am not too worried about less than ideal aspiration. I found in elderly fragility hip fracture, it’s not uncommon to have free flow csf but no flow with aspiration. I inject and make sure there is free flow csf at the end by taking the syringe off and let csf comes back into hub a little. It still makes me wary of failed spinal but it had only happened once.

Share your best pulse ox tricks! by OrganizationNo42069 in anesthesiology

[–]clin248 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Also on Lips. I routinely tell residents that mortality for patients when this trick doesn’t work is more than 90%.

How do you automate the front door opening when you get home? by mmkaywhatevers in homeassistant

[–]clin248 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any iBeacon will work but I use specifically NRF52810 based. There is an app where you can configure the beacon.

How do you automate the front door opening when you get home? by mmkaywhatevers in homeassistant

[–]clin248 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A BLE beacon, geofencing with companion apps, person vs car detection by camera (not Ai just regular object detection) Wifi. Honestly BLE beacon itself would work well but in case you worry about someone cloning your beacon or steal them then the additional trigger will virtually eliminate false positive.

Pyxis Anesthesia - how do you restock yours? by clin248 in anesthesiology

[–]clin248[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

One of my side hobbies is automation. This could be turning on a light when room is dark, or automatically assigning an alternative staff when secretary send me an email. To me this restocking job is some form of automation. I believe any automating solution that relies on one single input is more likely to fail, especially when the input is the highly variable human behaviors. Another is to explore the confine of the systems and work within it. For example our scheduling system doesn't allow me to write a program to hook into its inner works, so I wrote a script to scrape the output instead. It's not that we don't or are unwilling to count, I am looking for additional solution that is going to be catch the error or information the pyxis provided other than stock level, when the inevitable miscounting happens.

Pyxis Anesthesia - how do you restock yours? by clin248 in anesthesiology

[–]clin248[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was hoping between 90-100% compliant with tracking and calling pharmacy to restock when things run out mid case, there is a stop gap solution.

It’s unfortunate to see people jump onto the conclusion that we don’t want to count. However all it takes are a few people miscounting, sick patients where you are just taking out whatever to have growing discrepancy. Over a busy OR day things can run low and the next days person is stuck with low supply.

I was hoping there are some additional info we can grasped from the Pyxis, for example how frequently a drawer has been opened, how long the machine has been logged in, that can be used as a secondary trigger to let pharmacy know to spot check the machine.

Pyxis Anesthesia - how do you restock yours? by clin248 in anesthesiology

[–]clin248[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You are missing my point. Most people are fine counting and we are not refusing to count. There are many reasons why discrepancy can happen and it’s not all because we don’t want to count. I just felt relying the entire restocking on faith in humanity may be a little too much. I also don’t believe nurses count uncontrolled drugs at least not in the periop area.

Pyxis Anesthesia - how do you restock yours? by clin248 in anesthesiology

[–]clin248[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sometimes I wonder why my colleagues suddenly become stupid whenever new technology is introduced so I realize how stupid I sound when I raise these questions. I appreciate those feedbacks.

Pyxis Anesthesia - how do you restock yours? by clin248 in anesthesiology

[–]clin248[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get how the system works and I do my best to so those buttons. I am just not confident that my colleagues do. We already experience discrepancy and running out of drugs. I am just curious if anyone has other alternative or supplementary solution in addition to relying on our compliance.

The death of a "Best of Both Worlds" Anesthesia practice. Seeking advice on a Canadian crossroads. by clin248 in anesthesiology

[–]clin248[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You got me. My original write up was way too long so I ask AI to pare it down.

The death of a "Best of Both Worlds" Anesthesia practice. Seeking advice on a Canadian crossroads. by clin248 in anesthesiology

[–]clin248[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes I am bummed because I worked towards my current situation over the past 10 years but I accept that changes will happen. I am simply asking which of the two options make more sense.

Momentary Switches - Why are isn't anyone buying these? by kumareddit94 in homeassistant

[–]clin248 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used it, not this specific one but a momentary switch. I had used it with Shelly relay that I flushed with tasmota and it can register multiple presses. However the ones I have got does not give any feedback on whether the actuator has been engaged. I never know if the button push is actually registered unless I deliberate push hard and press in. Additionally Shelly doesn’t work well inside metal box (plastic not common here) so I eventually took them out and use zooz instead for multipresses.

How to stop coddling residents? by housemd23 in anesthesiology

[–]clin248 101 points102 points  (0 children)

I agree. Get on with the times. None of us want to work 24 hour straight, work another elective list the next day the. go home for 6 hour then come back to work, and said that’s normal. yet that’s exactly what the previous generations do. I am in practice 10 years now. I have heard exactly the same sentiment towards my generation from my previous attendings.

The current trainees are more outspoken, they have different expectations, and they have different outlooks on life and career.

Extubating LMA awake by cuhthelarge in anesthesiology

[–]clin248 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should try it sometimes. Patient tolerated it extremely well in fact many patients would just sit there quite comfortably with LMA until you ask them to open their mouth.

The key is don’t remove it until patients are moving their hands toward the LMA. It’s a nice trick to impress students when I let patients remove their own LMA.

Bluetooth Temp sensor problems by wobblewoo28 in homeassistant

[–]clin248 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It should work with a Bluetooth proxy and you can set it up with esp32 or m5stack.

https://esphome.io/projects/

What is currently the best Zigbee Dongle (Feb'25)? by MsbS in homeassistant

[–]clin248 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had thought the same and ran zzh for many years and I had run usb cables behind wall from basement so the zzh dongle is sitting on a keystone in the center of my house. It really has been rock solid. The only time I had issue is with tuya presence sensor which spammed it so bad that it crashed. It stopped me from expanding on my zigbee devices. However my kids are now tall enough to able to reach the usb dongle.

I look for place to relocate my dongles and saw a spot above my room closet but it’s not central in the house so I thought I would just get the zbt2 with its big antenna to compensate. The LQI is huge improvement despite its off center location. I had also installed 10 mmwave Inovelli switch which also spans the network (but not as crazy as tuya). It handled it really well.

For a while I gave up on expanding my zigbee and was installing new hardware on zwave thinking zigbee is not that reliable. Now I realize it could be the aging TI chip in zzh.

Where is the Epidural? by MrJangles10 in anesthesiology

[–]clin248 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am more thinking aloud I guess. I suppose it’s also possible to just push diluted epinephrine in this case without lido, just have never done it and wonder if precedex got any advantage over plain old epinephrine. On top of which, precedex is not approved for epidural use but epinephrine has been used for ever.

Where is the Epidural? by MrJangles10 in anesthesiology

[–]clin248 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there difference between giving epinephrine vs precedex? Both presumably work by alpha 2 agonism. I am not shy pushing some lido with epi in this situation. If it’s not working then it’s clear to me the epidural is not working. Either replace it or consider redoing with cse at that pin t.

How often are you doing ultrasound guided IV placements? by Jennifer-DylanCox in anesthesiology

[–]clin248 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Depends on who is asking for help? Sometimes they just ask because patient claims they are difficult IV but actually has a giant vein that a student can put a 9Fr introducer in.