Good ways to kill patients

[Just Plain Ruff]

How bout in the ER and putting the O2 line into the Air line that they have. You know the connector that is Yellow not Green.

An oldie but a goodie - fully inflated MAST pants on a trauma patient and having a doctor or nurse pull off the velcro!!! Nothing like having your patients BP tank. Happened a long long long time ago

Giving 1mg of Isoproteronol IV push - DOH!!!!!!! Just look at all the rhythms on the monitor after that one!!!!!!!!!!!!! Another one done by a illustrious doctor in a rural ER.

OK One more -- Had a Abdominal Aortic Aneurism - doctor insisted on doing a cutdown on the ankle to get a IV when we had a perfectly good opportunity to get a IJ or Subclavian. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! patient coded soon after. Doc had just returned from an ATLS class and one of the sessions was Cutdowns of the lower extremities. Can someone say maybe Practice???????

Edited December 13, 2013 by Captain ToHellWithItAll

[scubanurse]

Giving three quick sprays of SL Nitro instead of one, recheck vitals, another, recheck vitals, and a third if stable/necessary.

I've seen a c-collar on so tight there was color change in the patient's face.

No strapping someone into the stair chair appropriately and having them fall out.

[ERDoc]

No strapping someone into the stair chair appropriately and having them fall out.

That situation is not funny, but when you read it and picture a Monty Python-esque scene, it makes you chuckle.

[Just Plain Ruff]

That situation is not funny, but when you read it and picture a Monty Python-esque scene, it makes you chuckle.

Or Mother Jugs and Speed with the cot scene

[uglyEMT]

BVMing so hard the patient looked 9 months pregnant.

not us but... A wife giving Excedrin Migraine to a severe rapid onset headache her husband was having

[island emt]

OK One more -- Had a Abdominal Aortic Aneurism - doctor insisted on doing a cutdown on the ankle to get a IV when we had a perfectly good opportunity to get a IJ or Subclavian. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! patient coded soon after. Doc had just returned from an ATLS class and one of the sessions was Cutdowns of the lower extremities. Can someone say maybe Practice???????

Been there done that ruff: Came in with a post arrest ROSC and had a perfect 18 ga in one forearm and another in opposite AC. Pt had been down < 3 min prior to our arrival & was in V-Fib. 2 shocks, converted and ACLS followed to a T. Pt has perfusing rhythm on arrival and is semi conscious.

ER doc decides he want a central line , so proceeds to do a femoral cutdown.????

Come to find out they had seen it at a conference a couple weeks previously.

Edited December 14, 2013 by island emt

[ERDoc]

WTF? With central lines, cutdowns have become a thing of the past. I remember learning them in the first month of residency but that was the last time.

[Just Plain Ruff]

WTF? With central lines, cutdowns have become a thing of the past. I remember learning them in the first month of residency but that was the last time.

This was 1992 doc

[ERDoc]

OK, fair enough.

[island emt]

mine was 2 years ago. He was a young new Doc though. Maybe he had never done one on a live pt ????

Then again ::: it seems as most of the Docs today are kids.

Maybe I am getting old

Edited December 14, 2013 by island emt