#stemi

About AIVR.

STEMI

STEMI

30 minutes go by: they still aren’t ready. The patient turns to me and says “we can’t wait any longer. It’s getting worse.”

I say “what do you mean?”

and he says the words none of us like to hear.

“I’m gonna die.”

...

fast forward 10 minutes and he goes into his first arrest. We immediately shock him out of V-fib and he wakes up and says “what happened?”

“You passed out for a second, buddy. Don’t worry, you’re alive. We’re taking good care of you.”

We talk to our manager who calls cath lab. They say they still aren’t ready.

Second arrest. The first shock didn’t work and we had to do a round of CPR. Charged it up to full blast and hit him again and he came out of it. He’s groggy. He knows what’s going on and he repeats himself.

“I’m gonna die.”

Our director calls and tells the cath lab that the patient is coming, because at the very least, its better to wait in the cath lab room than in the ER.

We get him up. and as we get into the elevator to get back to the ER we hear them page a code to cath lab 4.