You Know the patient is going bad when...

[Nurseboy1]

You know the patient is going bad when their PA pressure is higher than their blood pressure (Pt quickly coded and died)

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[merellis2009]

You know the patient is going bad when on the elevator ride to the unit, he turns to his wife and says "I'm sorry honey. I'm dying. I love you..." then proceeds to go unresponsive... IN THE ELEVATOR!

[TiredMD]

They get worse and worse and worse for days.

Then one morning you walk in, and the RN tells you, "Oh my gosh, he's looking so much better today!"

That's when I wheel the code cart over next to the room.

[casi, ASN, RN]

When their respiratioins are higher than their blood sugar.

[PageRespiratory!]

When their respiratioins are higher than their blood sugar.

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ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

[PageRespiratory!]

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When you use up all the suction cannisters in the ICU, and CCU in less than an hour on the same Pt.

[espritjolieRN]

...you see ER wheeling your pt down the hall to you right past a doc standing in the hall who then says, "Oh hey, is he breathing??!"

Nope doc, he's not. That would be why he's blue. Thanks guys for bringing me a code.

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

an attending internist walks in the room, looks at the patient, walks back out to the nurses' station and asks, "what's mrs. brown's code status?" :redlight:

(it was the first time this particular physician from the hospitalist group had seen her).

jess

[Midwest4me]

Then one morning you walk in, and the RN tells you, "Oh my gosh, he's looking so much better today!"

That's when I wheel the code cart over next to the room.

Yep EXACTLY!!! It's when the patient looks to be improving after declining for days that you KNOW he/she is near the end.

[suanna]

I've always observed that when my patients PAP=thier systemic BP it was a sign that they had achieved perfect balance/nirvana and were now allowed to ascend to the next plane of existence.

[crb613, BSN, RN]

When the only thing you want to know about the pt. in your triage chair is.......their code status!

[Alibaba]

an attending internist walks in the room, looks at the patient, walks back out to the nurses' station and asks, "what's mrs. brown's code status?" :redlight:

(it was the first time this particular physician from the hospitalist group had seen her).

jess

that happened last weekend. this doc was covering for the attending and she came in @ change of shift. walks in to the room and comes right out asking what's miss so&so's code status? do we have a # for the next of kin? :uhoh21: my very first reaction was who is this asking questions followed very swiftly by jumping to action. the patient was gone in a few short hours.

[dardeedee]

You've known about an admission for 4 hours, all of a sudden the ED is in a big hurry to get them upstairs.....