What is a Thumper

[FirewalkerRN]

have been out of the loop for a while and have discovered new terms for old treatments. Ie: AA updraft instead of HHN. And what used to be an AMBU bag was then a Bag Valve Mask.......now back to AMBU.

My question is what is a thumper? Do I already know what this is and they changed the name this week?????

[mommatrauma, RN]

Oh, man! What a tragic story! Did the parents go to prison, do you know? I certainly hope so! Imagine that poor little one, slowly freezing to death! I used to wrok at a restaurant (as a teenager) and dreaded being sent back to the walk-in---even a few seconds in there felt like you imagines Antarctica would feel. "Frigid" doesn't even describe it.

To be honest with you, we followed up with it for a while, but lost track of it...there was alot of conflicting stories, language barriers (the family was vietnamese) and the already had been involved with our child and youth services in the past...I never got called for a deposition on it, so I'm not quite sure whatever happened with it...I believe there were other children as well, when everything was going on the other children were being relocated with an aunt, past that, I hadn't heard...It is very sad, but we just hope that he wasn't aware of what was happening when he died, hopefully he was already incoherent...and at least he's not suffering any more...The crazy part too...on the "not dead until you are warm and dead note" once we rewarmed him to a reasonable temp....four hours later...he had urine output...which goes to show that it is true...he had to be in there for quite a while b/c his temp was Soooo low, but we rewarmed him and the thumper did adequate enough compressions that we were still perfusing his kidneys....We wanted him to be a organ donor, but of course, the family refused...sad case...