memorable parts of the week

[Rendar5]

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jumping on a chair to do CPR (I'm pretty short) because EMS mozied on in with a pulseless person on a fully elevated stretcher. Just cause you've been doing it for 25 minutes on someone with an unknown downtime doesn't mean you get to stop because you're bringing a stretcher into the hospital...
Either call it in the field or keep pumping until I call it =p

 

[EvoDevo]

jumping on a chair to do CPR (I'm pretty short) because EMS mozied on in with a pulseless person on a fully elevated stretcher. Just cause you've been doing it for 25 minutes on someone with an unknown downtime doesn't mean you get to stop because you're bringing a stretcher into the hospital...
Either call it in the field or keep pumping until I call it =p

Yeah, I have never understood the whole "we're here!" then quitting once across the ED threshhold thing.





(BTW, to this day I just love saltimbocca . Been meaning to thank ya for the recommendation.)

 

[EvoDevo]

New reflex noted today: "Lux-oris response"

Wave an otoscope in someone's face and their mouth drops open.

 

[Rendar5]

Glad you like Saltimbocca🙂 I couldn't get my wife to like it, though.

 

[Rendar5]

Cardiac arrest of the week: single provider in back of a bus taking a drunk pt s/p fall with head injury wh then goes into vfib arrest,. starts compressions instead of shocking, pt arrives asystolic with a BVM. Code called after several minutes.
I walk out of the room only to hear "Dr. Rendar, the patient has a pulse!" turn around P120, with a BP 120's/80's, go figure

 

[deleted109597]

Cardiac arrest of the week: single provider in back of a bus taking a drunk pt s/p fall with head injury wh then goes into vfib arrest,. starts compressions instead of shocking, pt arrives asystolic with a BVM. Code called after several minutes.
I walk out of the room only to hear "Dr. Rendar, the patient has a pulse!" turn around P120, with a BP 120's/80's, go figure

That **** has happened to me twice in the last few months.
One had a pulse pressure so high you could see their aortic impulse on the stomach. After I pronounced.

Nurses hate it when you pronounce someone more than once.

 

[diphenyl]

Saw a woman with a broken crack pipe in her vagina. Claims she didn't recall putting it up there. Either she's a liar or has been smoking some quality product. lol