Thursday, 15 December 2011

Rewind

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.

1 comment:

  1. What would you have done differently? Other than pulse ox and ekg?

    Is BGL same as ABG (Arterial Blood Gas)?

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