Quote of the Night
I'll set the scene first:
The Zoll pads are in place, the sedative has already been drawn up in a syringe, the Type A Texan with new-onset atrial fibrillation is in a hurry to get his cardioversion over with so he can go eat dinner (hell no, he doesn't want to be admitted), I'm at the computer finishing up another chart before I start the procedure. The nurse at the bedside, ready to go, asks the patient...
"Do you want to push the button?"
The Zoll pads are in place, the sedative has already been drawn up in a syringe, the Type A Texan with new-onset atrial fibrillation is in a hurry to get his cardioversion over with so he can go eat dinner (hell no, he doesn't want to be admitted), I'm at the computer finishing up another chart before I start the procedure. The nurse at the bedside, ready to go, asks the patient...
"Do you want to push the button?"
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posted by scalpel at 6:58 AM
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That was interesting reading. I had heart ablation in April which is somewhat more invasive but I think the results might be longer lasting? This procedure wasn't even mentioned here...ciao
OMG!!!! That is hilarious!!
Thanks for the laugh.
We are always inundated with patients who do not belong in the ER. But then there are the patients who SHOULD be and just don't seem to understand the seriousness of their situations.
So did he? (smiling here)
I bet he said yes.
That's a man after my own heart.
Get the problem fixed and go on with your life!! Why linger in a hospital full of sick people?
Yee Haw! That would be interesting to watch.
I had one of that sort recently.
He came in extremely short of breath, diaphoretic, & sick as hell. We diagnosed his spontaneous pneumo that was headed to tension pneumo & stuck a garden hose in his chest.
Once he could breathe again, he wanted to go home, straight home, none of this sitting still stuff. "I'm not an invalid"
He was admitted to surgery.
Nice guy, though.
I had DC cardioversion, and would never have had the guts to say that!
Hey, we Texans can't help it!
Things to do, oil prices to manipulate, countries to run into the ground....
This is before he received the sedative. :-)
I like them almost unconscious and stimulated to "What was that?" for cardioversion.
Did it take more than one shock?
If so, did that change his perspective?
I was expecting it to be an insightful comment from the patient, not the nurse. The nurse sounds like a lot of fun to work with.
HA!!! OMG, thats funny. I too want to know if the patient said yes. I can see the scene as you describe it.
He required more than one shock. I doubt even Johnny Knoxville would push the button more than once.
That's funny. I don't care who you are. That's funny
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