Day 9 of 20
Ah, it's been a good day!
It started off with me being irreversibly late for lessons, and thanks to Dopey's sms I woke up in horror and decided heck ... I'll skip the lecture. Ended up chasing writeup patients to follow them up, managed to get 1 and the hyperkalaemia patient was already discharged - good for him!
Highlight of the day was something we don't usually see everyday - drowned patient. I initially thought it was a near-drowning case, but apparently he went into asystole in the ambulance. First time ever doing CPR, it was awfully tiring; some 5 or 6 of us took turns to pump the young man. Just before that 2 trauma surgeons were in the next cubicle stitching up a poor woman who had a nasty fall down a flight of stairs, so when the drown victim came in the surgeons helped out as well. The ED doc ended up giving repeated doses of adrenalin to kick start his circulation, so we had quite a few false alarms - every once in a while we'd think there's a heartbeat, but it always disappeared after a couple of seconds. =( After 30 minutes he decided to stop resuscitation, man's parents were told he's in asystole (the poor woman was in such grief, according to R) and just at that moment, his heart came back! =D Great eh? Now they're hoping his brain will be alright, but chances are slim. Possibly end up being a vegetable even if they managed to bring him back.
Right .. too tired to really type, going to take a short break before doing some writing.
It started off with me being irreversibly late for lessons, and thanks to Dopey's sms I woke up in horror and decided heck ... I'll skip the lecture. Ended up chasing writeup patients to follow them up, managed to get 1 and the hyperkalaemia patient was already discharged - good for him!
Highlight of the day was something we don't usually see everyday - drowned patient. I initially thought it was a near-drowning case, but apparently he went into asystole in the ambulance. First time ever doing CPR, it was awfully tiring; some 5 or 6 of us took turns to pump the young man. Just before that 2 trauma surgeons were in the next cubicle stitching up a poor woman who had a nasty fall down a flight of stairs, so when the drown victim came in the surgeons helped out as well. The ED doc ended up giving repeated doses of adrenalin to kick start his circulation, so we had quite a few false alarms - every once in a while we'd think there's a heartbeat, but it always disappeared after a couple of seconds. =( After 30 minutes he decided to stop resuscitation, man's parents were told he's in asystole (the poor woman was in such grief, according to R) and just at that moment, his heart came back! =D Great eh? Now they're hoping his brain will be alright, but chances are slim. Possibly end up being a vegetable even if they managed to bring him back.
Right .. too tired to really type, going to take a short break before doing some writing.
posted by R. at 12:46 AM
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