It's been a couple of crazy but fun days at work. First we had a young chap in his 30s presenting to us at 8.30 am after sleeping out in the cold after a few drinks. It was -2 celcius when it happened and he showed up with a core temperature of 25 celcius. He had arrested on route to the AE department. We spent 2 hours just to bring his body temperature up to 30 celcius before he started breathing spontaneously and his heart beat returned to normal. At this stage, he had been defibrillated multiple times and had warm water tubed into his body core via every possible orifice. Last I checked, he's doing quite well in ICU.
Later today, the ambulance brought in a lady in her 70s who had just had status epilepticus. For those not in the know, that just means continuous episodes of fitting. She was unconscious when she came in so I had to quiz the husband for a collateral history. He was quite shy about telling it but it transpired that they had decided to stay in bed for the day and take it easy. However, in doing so, she neglected to take her anti epileptic medications for the day. Hence the fitting episodes. We all thought it was quite sweet but the drama wasn't over yet. As he was sitting there waiting for us to complete our tests on her, he too collapsed and had to be checked in for further test.
Wait, there's more. Then came in the daughter, who showed up to see her mum. Upon entering the AE department suddenly developed abdominal pain and had to be sat down. We thought to ourselves, this is all starting to sound like a piss take! What are the odds of having 3 family members checking in at the around the same time for various reasons? We just had to roll our eyes and hope the rest of the family don't decide to follow suite. Busy day, lots of drama, good fun. Hope you have a good weekend.
ps: We've decided, Odie needs to get the chop!
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