Sid Schwab on what it’s like responding to a code:
“Code Blue, room 326; Code Blue room 326; Code Blue room 326….” My first response is to run the room number through my mind to figure if it could be my patient. And whether it could be, or clearly isn’t, it’s always a sense of dread and doom at what I’ll find.
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Being the ER doc in a large community hospital we respond to the “code blues”. On the wards it is usually a big clusterf…..
There is usually 15 people in the room with a stupid look (?students — I don’t know who they are). The nurse that was actually assigned to the patient is the only one NOT in the room.
I can tell you, while being out in the field and not in a controlled setting, with bystanders and no crowd control, you do yell “clear!” We want them back, and are unable to enforce it ourselves, as our concerns are focused elsewhere.
Anon 10:48:
Kind of like how I feel when I ask some ER doc’s pointed questions about patient’s they want to admit and realize they haven’t even done more than a superficial evaluation of the pt such that they can’t give me a good reason why they want the pt admitted.
Conclusion: we each pick our poison. For every clustf… on the ward, I can give you one in the ER. The difference is I don’t constantly whine about it and act like I am smarter than everyone else and part of the most important branch (the ER) of the hospital.
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