Just Plain Ruff Posted January 6, 2009 Posted January 6, 2009 I was taking care of a woman in the ER while being the primary ambulance crew medic. I was almost ready to discharge her when we get a call on a man unconscious but breathing. I knew this would be a code,what at 3am you rarely find a unconscious man breathing but hey one can hope. On arrival we see a firefighter doing cpr so we go in to start to work the code. Drive time was 31 minutes, fire was on scene for 18 of those 30 mins and cpr was in progress the entire time. Wife said that the last time she noticed he was breathing was a short time before she called 911. Well this guy was in asystole and I asked his wife if he had a dnr and she said it was up at a hospital in KC MO. She did say he said he never wanted this to happen. I called the doctor on duty in our ER and we dicussed ceasing the code which we did. So while talking to the wife a man walks in the room and goes directly to the wife and hugs her, he said something that I didn't understand but it sounded like "I'm glad you're here Mike" and then I turned around and saw his wife. This was the woman I had just been discharging from our ER. It was her father in law who we just called. She said "I'm so glad it is you here and not someone we didn't know" Just had to share.
spenac Posted January 6, 2009 Posted January 6, 2009 Wow. That is interesting. At least your presence gave family comfort.
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