Check your IV lines guys!
Today the emergency buzzer was hit by a nurse. The noradrenaline line had kinked under the patient while he was having chest physio. It was kinked for about 30 seconds, his blood pressure plummeted, and he went into asystole. I was looking after a patient who was conveniently located next to the resus trolley, so I took it and ran. I forgot to unplug the defibrillator but it got jerked out of the wall anyway hehe, oops.
Anyway, when I got there the in-charge nurse was performing compressions and asked me to take over. I’ve never actually had to do CPR in a life-saving situation before (as bad as it sounds, I’ve only ever done it on patients that were pretty much dead on arrival in ED for practice while I was on prac). So it was pretty intense.
He ended up in SVT. I will post more about SVT (and AF, as promised) soon. I just wanted to post about this first!
This happened at the end of my shift so they were still working on him when I left. They’d stopped compressions, but were loading him with filling and atropine and whatever else.
Crazy afternoon. Tomorrow I take back another immediate post-op patient. Looking forward to it!
(Source: ermedicine, via foundalostcause)
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I extubated ANOTHER patient, Jesus. That’s all I seem to be doing these days! She was begging me to get the tube out all morning, but she was still getting a lot of pressure support so I had to keep weaning and checking her ABGs. Finally got it out though, and she seems to be breathing ok.
I meant to post some info about AF yesterday, but I was lazy. Sorry guys. I will this afternoon though!
And I was bolded too!!!
Hey new followers,
Welcome! :)
nonchalantelephant asked: Did you have to do any extra training before starting in ICU? I thought you had to have at least 2 years experience and do a post grad course.
I’m in an “inductory program” for ICU, which goes for a year. It’s made for people who have never worked in ICU before, and you needed 6 months experience in an acute area (e.g. Med or surgical ward) to be eligible.
I’m not sure about what the requirements are for other countries, but if you’re interested in ICU then keep a look out for opportunities like the one I found. It’ll at least give you an idea on what you need to do to be eligible :)
