"Congrats, You helped save that mans life"

Today was my last shift and it was a nice end. Helped save a life!

A 60ish year old man came through the door in full cardiac arrest. He had been in his car driving when others saw him vere off the road. Someone on the scene immediately started CPR and the ambulance came quickly. In the ED we kept CPR going, gave him meds and shocked him twice. He came back to sinus rhythm! We did a quick EKG on him and determined he was having a massive heart attack. Cardiology was called and within minutes he was taken upstairs to the cardiac cath lab to un-plug the vessel.

I heard later in my shift that he survived.

A couple other patients I had during this shift was a woman with a WBC count of 41 and INR of 22! Thats pretty unheard of!

Oh, and we had a 20something year old male come in for chest pain...which started when he was pole dancing at his party the night before. That was a fun HPI to illicit!