Thursday, June 26, 2008

Shaky Hands, A Follow Up

The ER doctor at Providence pulled me aside today after I'd dropped
off a fall patient. He wanted to tell me what a good job I had done
with Wendy. "You saved her life," he told me.

They had trouble placing the chest tube and had to make a second
attempt at it. By the time the tube was placed though, all the air in
her chest cavity had already vented out the needle. "Without the
decompression, she would have died in the ER," he told me.

I have never felt better about being a paramedic.

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