greenmood Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 greenmood: What did the packet consist of? Situational information, if the patient had an advance directive, if the death was expected or unexpected, if the family will consent to autopsy, if the patient is a donor, etc. There are a lot of papers. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted January 27, 2014 Moderator Share Posted January 27, 2014 ^^^...once you've checked your leads. yup, x 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted January 27, 2014 Moderator Share Posted January 27, 2014 when I was a medic we once called a guy who was in persistent vfib for 45 min..... MVA trauma code, transported rapidly from scene, lots of fluids, multiple rounds acls meds(we gave bretylium and high dose epi back then....). arrived at hospital in vfib and remained in same for 15 more min at which point er doc called code. he was defibed > 30 times I think. chest hair caught on fire at one point. not pretty. pt ended up having a traumatic aortic dissection from his steering wheel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medic25 Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 High dose epi was great; you could get ROSC on a cheeseburger with 10mg of epi. Too bad it only ever lasted a few minutes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted January 28, 2014 Moderator Share Posted January 28, 2014 High dose epi was great; you could get ROSC on a cheeseburger with 10mg of epi. Too bad it only ever lasted a few minutes! yup, survival to icu admit rates increased but not survival to d/c = spend a few hundred thousand dollars extra and they still die.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmj11 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 yup, survival to icu admit rates increased but not survival to d/c = spend a few hundred thousand dollars extra and they still die.... Reminds me of a book made into a movie (by a friend of ours-wink) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted January 28, 2014 Moderator Share Posted January 28, 2014 Reminds me of a book made into a movie (by a friend of ours-wink) yup. did you see the phillipines pix on the nycm site? he was there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paraguru Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 I manage a small cohort of elderly patients in my local hospital as there PCP. When one passes I am the one that does the death certificate and items such as that. The state even has the entire thing done online now. I am sure it will vary from state to state though, so you just need to find out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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