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re: My EEEE ARE story. Asking for the MDs and ER RNs thoughts.
Posted on 10/14/22 at 3:02 am to LSU alum wannabe
Posted on 10/14/22 at 3:02 am to LSU alum wannabe
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This is a freestanding ER
You are a functional ER...you should be able to handle coding someone until you stabilize them to move or nature takes it's course. What can 911 do that you couldn't?
You don't load a person in cardiac arrest into an ambulance to go from one ER to another while coding them.
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got her back once very briefly
This means not stabile enough to transfer.
Was the doctor actually there?
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Posted on 10/14/22 at 3:06 am to WaWaWeeWa
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And it also just seems strange that an ER would call 911
Ding! Ding! Ding!
If there is an ER out there that calls 911 for a cardiac arrest inside tell me where it is...I don't want to go anywhere near that one.
Posted on 10/14/22 at 5:56 am to CrimsonTideMD
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You did wrong because you admitted the ED could not handle what it is billed as
IMO you hit the nail on the head. This was always about optics. Which when you are in it you give 2 shits about.
The question was asked what can another ER provide? Yes we are a “stand alone” so….
A. Surgery.
B. Cath lab.
C. Interventional Radiology.
D. All other consultants. No other MD is going out there. And without their equipment on hand why would they.
E. People. Running a code properly requires people. Probably 8. We had 3.
Sadly moving forward we just began calling codes. Easier to fill out a death packet than deal with the fallout. Thankfully I had no pediatric codes. I’d have lost my job. Because frick optics.
Posted on 10/14/22 at 8:29 am to WaWaWeeWa
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I think she is saying that if they can’t handle a patient collapsing in an emergency situation why are they called an emergency room?
You are aware that small community hospital ERs transfer patients to tertiary care centers every single day, right? Because they don't have the equipment, specialist, etc to adequately treat the patient.
Posted on 10/14/22 at 10:00 am to CrimsonTideMD
This. And where we are is fairly rural.
I know I did right by the patient. frick what the “O’s” thought.
I know I did right by the patient. frick what the “O’s” thought.
Posted on 10/14/22 at 10:51 am to LSU alum wannabe
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Family with her suggested MI by story. That's the theory we ran with.
Y’all went on a family suggestion?
What did her 12 lead EKG show?
Posted on 10/14/22 at 12:07 pm to riverdiver
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What did her 12 lead EKG show?
A dying heart. PEA, Agonal, VFib, Asystole, brief period of Brady.
Posted on 10/14/22 at 2:22 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Probably should’ve just called the code and pronounced instead of dialing 911.
She could’ve had a MI, ruptured AAA, tension pneumo, pulmonary embolus, or a head bleed at the minimum.
Free standing ER’s are usually glorified Urgent Cares. Nothing wrong with that, there’s a need for them, but the general public doesn’t realize that for the most part they aren’t staffed and equipped like an ER at a large medical facility.
Sucks for you to be stuck in that situation, with a patient whose problems were overstretching the staff and facility capabilities. Not a good situation to be in, between a rock and a hard place.
She could’ve had a MI, ruptured AAA, tension pneumo, pulmonary embolus, or a head bleed at the minimum.
Free standing ER’s are usually glorified Urgent Cares. Nothing wrong with that, there’s a need for them, but the general public doesn’t realize that for the most part they aren’t staffed and equipped like an ER at a large medical facility.
Sucks for you to be stuck in that situation, with a patient whose problems were overstretching the staff and facility capabilities. Not a good situation to be in, between a rock and a hard place.
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