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Bodybag
Some of things we have to do as Paramedics is pretty crazy. Sometimes the treatment is more disturbing than the actual accident. Drilling an IO into a leg to get access, cutting a throat to place an airway or sticking the chest deep with needles to decompress air are just a few of things I’m sure medics of the future will think are barbaric. Doing CPR with your hands in a pool of blood because no matter how much you suction, blood just keeps coming out of the ET tube and spilling everywhere.
It’s weird to do that to another body, in my experience most of these cases don’t have a happy ending…so why do it? Why put myself through that? I guess there is a chance it could help. I wonder how many of us are haunted by the futile and invasive treatments we’ve provided to already lifeless corpses.
Stay safe everyone.
DanSun
Emmet Bondurant
on October 2, 2019You haven't really done CPR until you've done it on a frail elderly woman, felt bones crunch under your fingers with each compression, with the nursing home staff swearing up and down there's no DNR; she's a full code...or gotten viciously chewed out by a patient's MD at the ER for actually getting a pulse back on an elderly patient who actually did have a DNR, despite all of the nursing home's protestations to the contrary.