She was intubated on scene. Unfortunately she had a large head bleed and a pneumothorax discovered by XRay in the ER. Somehow the XRay was read as normal by the astute radiology resident, but we put the chest tube in anyways.
(Not images of this actual patient. Images "borrowed" from google).
She made it up to the ICU alive, and that's the last I heard of her. Sad part is that was the 2nd case we had that week of the same story. The last patient, though, didn't make it to the ICU.
-ER Doc
3 comments:
How was that pneumo missed? Sad case...a job well done by your ER team and the prehospital team, getting her to the unit alive.
Um wow. So sad.
By the way, I've enjoyed your blog for a long time. Never commented. But I started a patient blog and wanted to let you know I put you in my blog roll.
M
That's awful! We had a pt last year that 'lived' with us for about 5 months. The guy found out his girl was going to break up with him so he decided to take both of their lives. She walked away fine. He on the other hand, had head trauma, PEG tube, left sided paralysis, ect. He got stronger and went to outpatient rehab.
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