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This woman came to the ER and told me she had centipede.Centipede???
Yes, she had been admitted to ICU last month for
"centipede".
They changed her regular medicine, sent her to cardiac rehab. Now she had musculoskeletal aches and pains.
After pulling her medical record she had a big MI, coated, stents placed and
admitted to ICU with what started with her passing out.
With all that was going on she never heard "Heart Attack", Cardiac Catheterization,
Angioplasty or Stents. All she got out of it was SYNCOPE (a.k.a. Centipede)
Nursing education FAIL...
I want you laughing ICON......
Where I come from that patient had just done fell out......
We have a considerably large population of folks where English is a second language, so...
From an EMS side:
When dispatch types in "Family says pt has 'chicken breathe'", you can reasonably assume that it's not a case of "rooster halitosis", but instead "she-can't-breathe" was the chief complaint.
Responded to a patient who was brought to the ED earlier for "a sink of pee" (syncope) that hasn't improved. At 3 a.m., it didn't quite click in my head to forego asking the wife questions about the abnormalities of her husband's urine. Muffled snickers from my partner eventually clued me in . Duh.
EmergencyNrse
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This woman came to the ER and told me she had centipede.
Centipede???
Yes, she had been admitted to ICU last month for
"centipede".
They changed her regular medicine, sent her to cardiac rehab. Now she had musculoskeletal aches and pains.
After pulling her medical record she had a big MI, cathed, stents placed and
admitted to ICU with what started with her passing out.
With all that was going on she never heard "Heart Attack", Cardiac Cateterization,
Angioplasty or Stents. All she got out of it was SYNCOPE (a.k.a. Centipede)
Nursing education FAIL...