A few days ago, I was involved in a 'resuscitation'...
That is, the patient presented in a respiratory arrest (they stopped breathing), which quickly deteriorated into cardiac arrest (heart stopped beating). They were clinically dead.
But thanks to modern medicine, they survived; an intubation, CPR, and pharmacological interventions... a restored heartbeat, "bucking" on the tube, this person will survive! We saved a life!
But there is more to this story... this patient is well known to most EDs in PHX...
Talk about fate... this was the second time at our facility alone, that this has happened! Think about that for a second! Two cardiac arrests, both times successfully resuscitated... to have someone walk out after a few days in the ICU, and continue their life...
Yet there life is such, that they continue behaviors that put them at risk.
I am sure I will see this patient again... hope there luck follows them!
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