It was nearing the last days of my cath lab rotation when an incident occurred that I had not yet experienced. The cath team was performing an atherectomy on a patient’s calcified coronary artery. Once the artery was reopened, the patient’s blood pressure and heart rate dropped. The patient was no longer breathing and code blue was called. Anesthesiologists, nurses and techs came into the room and quickly began to help resuscitate the patient. Medication was administered and they started giving chest compressions. Respiration and pulse were recovered, but soon the patient went under again and then a third time. Everything happened so quickly as I just stood there watching it all happen. After the patient was stabilized everyone took a step
