Personal Statement
The asystole sound filled up the entire room. I stood alongside nurses and doctors watching a male nurse positioned himself above the patient’s body giving compressions. After multiple attempts of trying to get a heartbeat, the patient continued to be flat lining. This experience changed my views on medicine.
I was charting on a patient in the emergency department when a nurse came up to us and asked the doctor if he knew how to do an EJ. The physician said no. The nurse quickly asked around if any of the medical staff knew how to perform an EJ. Minutes after the two nurses went upstairs into the ICU, a code blue was called through the intercoms. The physician and I had to go upstairs to examine the situation. It was there
The asystole sound filled up the entire room. I stood alongside nurses and doctors watching a male nurse positioned himself above the patient’s body giving compressions. After multiple attempts of trying to get a heartbeat, the patient continued to be flat lining. This experience changed my views on medicine.
I was charting on a patient in the emergency department when a nurse came up to us and asked the doctor if he knew how to do an EJ. The physician said no. The nurse quickly asked around if any of the medical staff knew how to perform an EJ. Minutes after the two nurses went upstairs into the ICU, a code blue was called through the intercoms. The physician and I had to go upstairs to examine the situation. It was there