Fair Oaks woman with ‘half heart’ defies odds, becomes mom - KCRA Sacramento
Fair Oaks woman with ‘half heart’ defies odds, becomes mom KCRA Sacramento
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wolff white syndrome :: Article Creator Stopping The Bias Snowball, Before It Kills Your Patient I arrived on scene perhaps ten minutes behind the first-in crew and the shift supervisor. Both the crew paramedic and the supervisor were knowledgeable, experienced providers. A school nurse was there as well, providing background info on our patient; a 16-year-old student with a history of asthma in severe distress. Our patient was in bad shape. She had severe difficulty breathing, tachycardia, was pale and diaphoretic, and you could hear the wheezes and rhonchi from 10 feet away. Her eyes had that unfocused, half-lidded stare that signals impending loss of consciousness and respiratory arrest. No doubt about it, she was sick and getting worse. She hadn't responded to multiple doses of her Combivent inhaler, and the lead medic – one our our flight paramedics who was covering a shift on a ground unit that day – already had a DuoNeb in place on a ...
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