Dec 1, 200223 yr Have you ever had a premonition that a patient was going to code (and been right) without any obvious symptoms, abnormal labs, or vitals?
Dec 1, 200223 yr Oh, yes! And, even worse, when the patient tells you that they think they are about to die, you'd better listen-they are rarely wrong!
Dec 1, 200223 yr More times than I can count. Once I even woke up in the night concerned about a former patient, and found out a couple of days later that she died right around that time!
Dec 1, 200223 yr Absolutely! More times than I can count I've made a turn into a patients room for no good reason, had no business whatsoever being in that room, and have found them on the floor, or in some kind of distress.
Dec 2, 200223 yr Originally posted by CATHYW Oh, yes! And, even worse, when the patient tells you that they think they are about to die, you'd better listen-they are rarely wrong! Absolutely right!! I know a couple of surgeons who will consider canceling their case if the patient tells them "I think I'm going to die on the table" or anything to that effect.Kevin McHugh
Dec 2, 200223 yr Definitely know the feeling, your subconcious working overtime to warn you of things you don't conciously notice. And high praise for the rare docs who will take you seriously when you say "This one's going to crash". (And especially to the anesthesiologist who stayed in house one call night after a pt. with a placenta previa-supposedly stable-not in labor-asked the nurse "Please don't let me die" She tried to bleed out later that night)
Dec 2, 200223 yr doesn't have to be a straight out "i'm gonna die today" kinda feeling either.had a lady tell me she was just soooo tired and didn't know how she kept going. died in my arms a few hours later.i shall never again dismiss that gut feeling of "something is about to happen."
Dec 2, 200223 yr oh you don't even know how this hits me right now...answer is yes and very recently. all i can say. and no, it was not good; it shook me to the core.
Dec 2, 200223 yr You bet your bippy...happened ALL the time when I worked in hospice.I also give kudos to the pediatrician I used to work with when I was a peds nurse...if I called him and said, "I really can't give you any evidence to prove it, but I think this kid is gonna crash", he'd come in, and inevitably, something bad would happen.Smilin': I had a hospice case that rattled me like that...feels terrible. (I was going to abbreviate your name "SBE", but that made me think of subacute bacterial endocarditis...not a good nickname!)
Have you ever had a premonition that a patient was going to code (and been right) without any obvious symptoms, abnormal labs, or vitals?