SOB.
PR 92.
RR 32 and retractive.
BP 170/120.
GCS 15.
Poor historian.
Neglected to put on a cardiac monitor.
Neglected to put on an SpO2.
Was only just round the corner from the hospital.
Didn't cannulate.
No temperature was done.
No BGL done.
Wheelchair bound.
Polio affected; no use of legs.
140kg +.
Transported by non urgent transport with the capacity to carry / secure a wheelchair, but paramedic went with the patient.
Triaged by nurse, sent to cubicle.
Completing paperwork.
Triage nurse rushes in, ashen faced.
Patient arrest. Now in the resuscitation bay.
Wish I could rewind time and redid my treatment.
Sh#t.
What would you have done differently? Other than pulse ox and ekg?
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