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submitted 7 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world
  • A 63-year-old man died on a Lufthansa flight on Thursday, according to Swiss-German outlet Blick.
  • Witnesses told the outlet the man had blood gushing from his nose and mouth.
  • The witnesses said passengers were screaming at the sight.
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[-] medgremlin@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago

I'm still intensely proud of myself for the one time I caved a guy's sternum in and he woke up to complain about it.

I was an ER tech at the time and he coded in CT (it's always in CT). So there was a nurse riding the gurney doing compressions while they brought him to the resuscitation bay where I took over compressions. I cracked his sternum on the third compression because, despite having about 75 pounds on me and being on top of the guy, the nurse hadn't cracked a rib or gotten perfusion. Unfortunately, someone had lost the CPR stool in the resus bay, and I was the only person tall enough to do compressions, so I did it for the full 11 minutes or so of the code in full isolation gear (because Covid). On the second round of amiodarone and defibrillation, he woke up and started fighting the tube that had been placed a few minutes prior. The first thing he said when he came to was that his chest hurt.

He was awake and talking to his family a couple hours later when I took him up to the ICU after all the admission paperwork and whatnot was done.

[-] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

Why is it always in CT??? That's an incredible save, if the first round of compressions weren't really effective. I can't even imagine doing compressions for 11 minutes at all, let alone in isolation gear. I think I'd join the patient, if I tried that.

[-] medgremlin@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

I was sweaty as heck and completely winded by the end of it, but the notion that you are currently responsible for a person's life and brain with their family in the hallway outside makes for good motivation.

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