So after clocking in at work today I was asked to "help out" in an extension area for the ER. This is an area that we place patients before we bring them to their room on the floor or discharge them. Upon entering this area the nurse points around the corner and suggests that I see if I could help out. Upon turning the corner I see four security guards and the mental health worker holding down a man. He's combative, schitzophrenic and off his meds for months. Story was he ended up freaking out and becoming combative so for his safety he was restrained and given Haldol to calm him down. Now Haldol IM takes about twenty minutes to take effect. So for the next fifteen minutes we held him down on the floor then lifted him onto a stretcher placing him into four point restraints. He's still combative so we tie two sheets around his torso to prevent him from hurting himself. Little did I know this was going to be a really interesting night at work.
~ A twenty two year old drunk driver, driving for two miles going the North on the South Bound lanes on the highway crashes her car into a minivan killing herself and the driver of the minivan. One of the passengers of the minivan is airflighted to Atlanta and one is brought into my hospital. She has two broken wrists, both open fractures, a dislocated hip, a fractured pelvis and a crushed femur. Honestly I've never worked on a patient so calm as we worked on her. As I assisted the Doctor in examining the open wrist fractures I noticed that she was wearing a plastic beaded bracelet. As I went to remove the bracelet I discovered that the bracelet was embeded about two inches between her Radius and Ulna (the two wrist bones). Somehow the force of impact pushed her wrist back, breaking the skin, seperated the head of both bones and placed this bracelet inside her wrist. At the end of my shift we wheeled her into the Operating room. She'll be in surgery for some time tonight. I could only hope the best for her.
~ That was pretty much for my eventful night at work. Oh and a coworker walked in on my while I was sitting on the toilet. I was sure that I had locked the door. Damn Crappy hosptial locks!
Sleep time
~ A twenty two year old drunk driver, driving for two miles going the North on the South Bound lanes on the highway crashes her car into a minivan killing herself and the driver of the minivan. One of the passengers of the minivan is airflighted to Atlanta and one is brought into my hospital. She has two broken wrists, both open fractures, a dislocated hip, a fractured pelvis and a crushed femur. Honestly I've never worked on a patient so calm as we worked on her. As I assisted the Doctor in examining the open wrist fractures I noticed that she was wearing a plastic beaded bracelet. As I went to remove the bracelet I discovered that the bracelet was embeded about two inches between her Radius and Ulna (the two wrist bones). Somehow the force of impact pushed her wrist back, breaking the skin, seperated the head of both bones and placed this bracelet inside her wrist. At the end of my shift we wheeled her into the Operating room. She'll be in surgery for some time tonight. I could only hope the best for her.
~ That was pretty much for my eventful night at work. Oh and a coworker walked in on my while I was sitting on the toilet. I was sure that I had locked the door. Damn Crappy hosptial locks!
Sleep time