Work as an RN in a small rural hospital so I see code blues here and there. The other night another RN calls a code blue on a patient that went into sustained vfib/vtach. I was second in to the room and the patient looks like they are seizing. I think their heart has stopped at this point.
I have my gloves on and I am just waiting to see if they are pulseless (couldn’t tell if they were breathing being on bipap already). They all of a sudden start talking to the primary RN and snap out of the dangerous heart rhythm on their own.
That patient was a second or two away from having a 300lb man forcibly compressing their chest to keep their blood pumping.
Work as an RN in a small rural hospital so I see code blues here and there. The other night another RN calls a code blue on a patient that went into sustained vfib/vtach. I was second in to the room and the patient looks like they are seizing. I think their heart has stopped at this point.
I have my gloves on and I am just waiting to see if they are pulseless (couldn’t tell if they were breathing being on bipap already). They all of a sudden start talking to the primary RN and snap out of the dangerous heart rhythm on their own.
That patient was a second or two away from having a 300lb man forcibly compressing their chest to keep their blood pumping.