Too many people died in our tiny ER this week. ICU patients admitted to med/surg because it's the best we can do. Patients we've tried to keep out of ICU for two weeks dying anyway. This is like nothing I've ever seen.
Oh no
Edit: for those of you that don’t doomscroll the nursing R*ddit “coding” is where people die/have to be resuscitated
Another one from the post:
What happens when you run out of hall space? We’re a smaller hospital, only 18 rooms in my ED. We’re up to 14 hall beds, and doubling up patients in the rooms even though they’re way too small for it. We’re now doing sepsis work ups and treating people with hyperkalemia and arrhythmias in fucking chairs without monitors. It’s fucking insanity.
I mean I don’t think it really matters
Vaccine won’t do shit for you if you’re having a heart attack
It's terrifying to think of having a medical emergency right now. I've been generally healthy and lucky before, but now I'm taking extra bandwidth to consider potential dangers with everything i do.
Yeah, I read a very convincing article about how we have 4300 icu beds per 100000 versus 6100 in Canada, and that the Us free market system was far superior with dealing with surges!!! :so-true:
for those of you that don’t doomscroll the nursing R*ddit “coding” is where people die/have to be resuscitated
Bringing a whole new meaning to "learn to code"
Never occurred to me people wouldn't assume that, but I guess not everyone watched age-inappropriate medical sitcoms as children
That's not even true, medical coding is about documenting/billing/classifying/itemizing medical stuff, most of which are not people dying.
Billing/medical coding is a thing, but 9/10 if you hear of someone "coding" in a US hospital, they mean someone has gone into cardiac arrest.
A little bit ago, my partner had to go to the ER. They had to sit on a gurney in the hallway.
It was a very eye opening experience, but the image that I know will stick forever in my mind is the old man with wide eyes, clutching an iPad - it was playing a John Wayne western - as they wheeled his dying ass deeper into the hospital. He didn’t make eye contact with me but I knew 100% he was going to die.
Anyway, back to work! (I’m essential!)
Basically every ER nation-wide is on diversion indefinitely right now. Try & stay safe out there comrades.
At least this won't traumatise the staff and further reduce capacity.
At the first hint that omicron was "mild" our psychotic oligarchs couldn't wait to unleash it on us. Fuckers.
