Night nurse: (Flopping chart down on desk, and sighing dramatically.) "The shit really hit the fan with this patient last night!"
Me: "Oh really!? What happened?"
Night nurse: "Well one minute I was looking at the monitor and her heart rate was in the 90s, and then the next minute she was in the 130s! All I did was turn her! She totally went into a-fib with RVR!!!!"
Me: "Uh huh, then what happened?"
Night nurse: "Nothing. It was really BAD!"
Me: "....oh."
(76 y/o female patient in the ICU for COPD exacerbation, on 5mcg/kg/min of dobutamine for her heart failure.)
welcome back!
ReplyDeleteHappy to see you back. Inspires me to write again. This semesters been difficult to say the least and I gotta get out my frustrations! Looks like you've been busy, keep up the good work of writing it down for us to read.
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