I was at the nurses station and the monitor tech said, SOMEBODY GO CHECK ON 9A NOW, in that voice that says NOW, lol. I go running and the woman is blue. I push the code button, turn on her light and start lowering her head so I can start compressions. At the same time, she gasps, turns her head, looks at me and smiles and is all of a sudden a nice pretty pink. OMG, I have never seen anything like it. I called out to the desk and asked what her monitor was now and she said, back in sinus! I asked the woman how she felt and she said, fine, why? LMAO, by this time all the doctors and nurses from other units were on the floor and I had to explain YES, she was blue when I found her, but she is fine now. Luckily, I had a strip of about 30 seconds of VFIB, (YES THAT IS RIGHT, V FIB!!!) To back up my claim. We ended up transferring her to intensive, but sheesh. Ever seen anything like that?
we had a lady in a ltc who would go out stop breathing..eyes fixed and dilated and pulse like 25-30 then when she had everybody going crazy she would perk up and ask for something to drink...when she died at the hospital the nursing supervisor called to tell me...i almost told her to go back and check but i figured that she would call the men in white coats if i did
Anyone consider the possibility that this woman needed a pacemaker?
The MAES procedure is a new one to stop arrhythmias too, it's like putting slash marks in the myocardiam to cause scar tissue thus blocking the electrical signals. Lora
I'm a nursing student and I was in my patients room the other day talking to her. She was talking just fine and functioning normally, then suddenly nurses came running into the room. Apparently she was having a big bout of V-Tach, but you would never know anything was wrong with her if not for the fact that she was on a heart monitor. Is this normal?
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