i don't want to make this a long story,but i want to know if proper action was taken. a month ago,my mom had a heart attack and i called 911 and she was in the hospital. 5 days later,she had an angioplasty. she was 70 yrs old and deemed to be in poor heart health along with diabetes. the very next day after the angioplasty,the stents closed up and she ended up having a major heart attack which i witnessed in her room. she went into cardiac arrest and i quickly called a nurse. they called the code and i left because i was so scared. she ended up dying 2 hrs after. i was finally able to obtain some of the code blue notes. i am guessing that the arrest that i witnessed she went into V-fib because once she got to the ICU,they gave her amiodarone. now,once she got to the ICU,only 20 minutes passed and the nurse there noticed a frothy pink liquid coming from her ETT. her O2 saturation and heart rate began to drop fast and she went into asystole. they called another code and i have those notes. they did chest compressions and gave her epi. times 3 and atropine. they were able to regain a pulse and O2 saturation. 10 minutes later,there was more frothy pink liquid from the ETT and she went into asystole again. they did compressions and gave epi and atropine. it is noted that they did chest compressions for 9 mins and the only rhythm was PEA. she was pulseless,breathless and had no carotid pulse. it said that her pupils were fixated and dilated and the doctor declared her dead. now,can anyone please answer,with the information given,could they have given more injections and done chest compressions for 10 more mins? could they have opened her chest and tried something there? could they have given vasopressin? it was a sudden death,because her doctor and cardiologist said that day that she was fine and i still can not get over it. has any nurse here witnessed a patient be resuscitated after more that 10 mins in asystole/PEA? sorry for the long post,but i have no family and i need to know if they did everything in their power to keep her alive.
