Cardioverting A Nurse Coworker?

[carolinef_2002]

Have any of you had to cardiovert a coworker? I'm a nurse and was cardioverted recently, 3 shocks conscious, and was wondering if any of you had to do this to a coworker, particularly a female coworker. I was laying there with my lovely chest exposed to my fellow coworkers, mostly females thank goodness as it was late in the evening. It all happened pretty quickly, and I know I shouldn't be embrassed, but thankfully we all had a pretty good laugh about it later.

Caroline

[elthia]

Once I had a Lab tech come to the desk, saying she didn't feel well and had heartburn. She was ashen, grey, and had circumoral cyanosis. We called the Unit manager to have her sent to the ED, and put her on a portable monitor, she was in 3rd degree block with tombstones. We then cut off her shirt and put the defib pads on her. She went straight to the cath lab, then for an emergent bypass.

[maelstrom143]

Wow...that had to be stressful, both to the lab tech and you guys. Congrats on getting her cared for in a timely manner.