hospital drama

[Moonlight_Raven]

at the Service ICU

Doc... BP=0 HR=0

*Code Blue* (waahhh, toxic talaga duty ko)

sir pakilagay sa cardiac monitor... ahh ok
-ay, sir... ung cardiac board

3:04 pm...

(ang Intubation set)
(nurse) Doc, what ET (endotracheal tube) size? 7.5 or 8.0?

cge, intubate patient now...
(after intubation..)

sir, pa Ambu-Bag

(medical clerk)-> CPR

(nurse) doc, first dose epinephrine given... doc, every 3 or five minutes ba?

(doc) every 3 minutes sir

CPR continues...

(nurse) second dose Epi given

(doc) sir, pa-fast drip ako ng Plain Normal Saline Solution

(doc)-> sir, stop muna CPR, pakitingin ang BP..

(medical clerk)-> sir, wala pa rin

(doc)-> cge, tuloy ang resuscitation

. . .

then... BP=90/60 HR=30's

(doc) nurse, pabigay naman ako atropine

given...

15 minutes passed... CPR continues

(nurse looks at Cardiac Monitor) doc, Ventricular Fribrillation

(doc) ok, defribillate

(nurse) sir, what energy?

(doc) mga 200 [joules] muna pare

(doc) clear

(the team) Clear!

--- delivers shock to the patient

---heart stabilizes

but after that patient deteriorates...

at 3:37 pm, patient was clinically pronounce dead

(me, the nurse)- post mortem care rendered


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it happened to me on one of my PM (2-10 pm) duty last march, in the 4 bed capacity Service ICU ... wherein with-in my shift , I have 2 deaths, and undergone the resuscitation

sometimes, I'm getting sick of my duty... same toxic scenarios... some of my co-staff says to me "may kalawit ka nanaman"


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