“What’s a STEMI?” My partner is a retired police officer, who works once a week. He asks because just the day before, his neighbor was whisked off the cardiac cath table just before he was to have a scheduled procedure when the doctor said they had an emergency STEMI coming in. Little does my partner…
Month: June 2010
Had This Call Before
Obese septic patient from SNF 29 diagnoses including dementialabored breathing, gurgley rhonchi throughoutDiaphoretic, temp of 104.1Doesn’t fit on stretcher, keeps falling to the sideYankeur suctioning thick brown sputumGloves ripElectrodes won’t stay stuckCan’t get an IV.Can’t read the writing on the W10CMED radio on fritz“We didn’t copy your patch, you keep cutting out.”Not regular partner hitting…