I had to do a clinical for my EMT class and one of the requirement is working in an Emergency Room for 10 hours assessing patients, filling out run sheets, and assisting the nurses/techs. Today I got to see:
3 EKG's (electrocardiograms)
1 MRI for a stroke (TIA) patient (Her right carotid artery didn't even show up on the MRI.....)
A blood transfusion started (That made me slightly sick but i didnt puke or faint!)
A guy came in from having a seizure. He bit both sides of his tongue and had blood flowing down both sides of his face.
3 Psych patients. One thought he had parasites all over himself. He was highly suicidal. Told me and the tech when he was going to be discharged he was going to go home and end it all with a bottle of pills so he didn't make a mess for someone else to clean up... Another one was bipolar and had schizophrenia. He was yelling at people who werent even in the room... Another they had stared at me with a death stare. I decided to leave that room...
Then some older women who fell and hit their heads. I was able to watch one of them get their head stapled. She had a laceration probably about 2 inches long about an inch deep that needed stapling.
Another guy (my first patient) he came in with a rapid heart beat. His BPM was 147 at first. After administering a medicine it didnt go down so they did a second and it went back down to the 90's.
*Forgot about the 3 cat scans. (1 for kidney stones for a guy. yeah. i saw the actual kidney stone on the monitor. 1 for the guy who had the seizure and another for head trauma)
So there's my exciting day :D I wanted to share it with my fellow blocklanders.
Whats your worst injury? Discuss/
