r/nursing - They are coding people in the hallways
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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

    • Mother [any]
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      3 years ago

      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.

        • Mother [any]
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          3 years ago

          I mean I don’t think it really matters

          Vaccine won’t do shit for you if you’re having a heart attack

          • Alex_Jones [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            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.

    • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      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: