Without going into great detail, I operated on a guy yesterday, a coronary bypass. It went very poorly. The guy basically died twice on the table. We pumped his heart by hand and managed to get through it. So he goes up to the intensive care unit and is placed in a room with two beds. I really didn't expect this guy to live through the night....So this morning I'm walking around and good news: he's doing beautifully. Within 2 hours he's extubated and talking and smiling. The guy in the other bed who had had a coronary bypass three days earlier and had been recovering uneventfully, died suddenly this morning from an apparent pulmonary embolus.

Now I'm not a religious man but I am a little spiritual and at times a little superstitious. I stood there looking at the guy who had passed and felt sad and disappointed...then I saw it: the name over the dead patient's bed was my prior night's bypass. Apparently someone had mismatched stickers over the two beds. Fine. No biggie. Patients get moved, nurses get confused, yaddi yaddi. But what I'm getting at is a little X-File-esque. The dead man was healthy, ready to transfer to the floor and he had died SO suddenly whereas our prior night's bypass was so, so sick....

It was a little eerie.
I'm sure Scully and Moulder could figure it out.

 

Moved to OT.

 

Whoa, that is wierd

 

Pretty Freaky, Im sure there is some type of logical explanation though

 

bubba, it's obvious. you killed the wrong guy.










(just kidding! I dunno how well this joke will go over with someone who saves lives, but anyway...)

 

Do patients die in threes? Seems like when one of our clients passes away, two more will surely follow. (And I figure all our clients are someone's patients...!)

Totally off topic and I apologize for that, but how's your new daughter, bubbastook?

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by tritium_pie
bubba, it's obvious.

 

 

Uecker,
I know stuff like this can be creepy but you know as well as I do that patients dont read the books. It was time for the celestial d/c. I have had a guy that did great after an TH esophagectomy, was ambulating, taking PO....he gathers his stuff up to go home and drops dead of a massive PE. He had ambulating ALL morning. Face it brutha, God was consulted and he took over care of the patient. On the same note, I was rounding with my studs in the unit, a guy went into V-fib. I reared back and slammed him in the chest.....popped him right out of it. Who'd a thunk it....a precordial punch NEVER works, except for this time. Still on CT surg?

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by tenblade2001
On the same note, I was rounding with my studs in the unit, a guy went into V-fib.