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i didnt know that this thread would turn out like this..so,let me say that i am not an official "code" recorder. my supervisor mentioned that since i can type and write fast that i should go to all the codes that are called and if i happen to arrive there fast enough,i can start recording,but if a nurse or resident has already started recording,i can go back to my "day" job. and honestly,i am sorry if this comment seems that i am full of myself,but it does not take a medical pro. to write down the events. i think anyone with a HS education can do it..for example..the dr. says give some epi. and you write down 2:28 - epinephrine given. then the dr. says to check for a pulse and the nurse checks and says no pulse..you write down 2:29 - no pulse. there is nothing complicated about it.

http://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644%2894%2970144-X/abstract this if proof that this case really happened.

altra,don't get so defensive..i may not be a nurse,but i do work at a hospital and at times i am interested in nurses imput on some cases.

first let me say that i have no nursing experience..i do computer work for the huge local teaching hospital. 2 days ago i was told that i could become a "code" recorder. a "code" was announced yesturday for the Cardiac ICU and i had to be there to record the events. when the whole team showed up,the patient was awake,alert and breathing fine. it ended up being a false alarm. what happened was the new nurse just started her shift and she noticed on the monitor that this pt. had a severe bradycardic heart rate of 20 BPM. nurse said that she shaked the pts. shoulder and got no response,so she panicked and pushed the code button. as it turned out,this pt. is a very heavy sleeper and her baseline HR is very very low during sleep. after this false alarm was over,i noticed the team leader dr. talking with the nurse face to face and the nurse was wiping a tear from her eye. i'm guessing that the dr. was scolding her. i am a sensitive person and i felt very sorry for the nurse..i would have hated being scolded. would any of you call a "code" for a pt. with a HR of 20? and was the Dr. right in scolding this nurse??

this is what life really is all about. i hate going to hospitals for these reasons. i have severe anxiety and i know that nobody will give a crap about me. honestly,if people were not getting paid,they would never take care of strangers. and that is reality.

http://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644%2894%2970144-X/abstract have any of you ever had an experience similar to this with a pt.?

while these stories are surely fun to read,i am a big time skeptic conserning the afterlife. i think that everything supernatural is the work of our brain. i'm sure the nurses who work in neurology would understand our brain function and what causes all this stuff.

i have never seen a doctor pronounce a pt. dead. when pronouncing,does he/she simply say time of death and give the time or does he/she say "i am pronouncing this patient dead"?

this is a sad case. i like to read bodybuilding message boards. about a week ago,there was a 22 year old australian bodybuilder who was found unresponsive and breathless in a sauna. he was rushed to a local hospital but could not be revived. the postmortem report said that he died from a massive heart attack. he was just 22 and had a clean bill of health and was very athletic. this is shocking. have any of you,especially in the cardiac department,had a case of young and healthy men who had MI's? this is something that has really stunned me.

there was a case at a hospital about 4 days ago when a 28 yr old male suffered a massive stroke. there was bleeding in the brain. he was put into a medically induced coma. the next day,he went into full asystolic arrest and after 20 minutes of CPR with no results,the doctor called off the code and patient was pronounced dead. could the stroke itself caused the heart to stop beating?

i'm sorry to rain on everyone's parade here,but you guys do realize that near death experiences are just a chemical hallucination reacting of the brain. our brains are so powerful that when they realize that something is wrong,the go into this mode and you have lots of people seeing these sort of things. and what do all these people have in common. they were alive afterward,they were not dead dead! trust me,when a person dies,it is game over. i know what real life is,and i have studied enough to know that our brain produces conscious awareness and when the brain does,so does our consciouness. i am suprised that some of you believe in life after death. i guess it is to feel sort of comfortable and not get scared of death.