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About 10mins after I walked into work this AM a Code Blue in L&D was called over the hospital intercom. I get up there and a 24yr old that had just delivered her first child a couple hours earlier was blue and unresponsive. Her husband was sitting there with their child when this happened. We coded her for 45mins but we could not get her back. It was terrible to have to tell her husband that he was a single parent to a newborn. 
I write the resusc note and head back to the ER...as soon as I step off the elevator, a woman runs in the back door holding a blue, unresponsive baby...I was like, "WTF, not again!" The baby was 2mos old and was found in his crib by mom in this condition. We were unable to resuscitate the child. I had to tell another person that their family member died...all before 8am. The woman sat there and held her baby for an hour until her husband arrived.
And finally, right before the end of my shift, a 6yr old was flown in after falling out of a tree. He hit his head and never regained consciousness. The pressure in his skull built due to swelling and his brainstem herniated before the neurosurgeon could get him to the OR. We ran the code for almost an hour and the surgeon cut a hole in the kids head in the ER but he still died.
So, not a good day...working on my 3rd beer since getting home a couple hours ago. Life sucks sometimes. I came home and hugged my boys.
I write the resusc note and head back to the ER...as soon as I step off the elevator, a woman runs in the back door holding a blue, unresponsive baby...I was like, "WTF, not again!" The baby was 2mos old and was found in his crib by mom in this condition. We were unable to resuscitate the child. I had to tell another person that their family member died...all before 8am. The woman sat there and held her baby for an hour until her husband arrived.
And finally, right before the end of my shift, a 6yr old was flown in after falling out of a tree. He hit his head and never regained consciousness. The pressure in his skull built due to swelling and his brainstem herniated before the neurosurgeon could get him to the OR. We ran the code for almost an hour and the surgeon cut a hole in the kids head in the ER but he still died.
So, not a good day...working on my 3rd beer since getting home a couple hours ago. Life sucks sometimes. I came home and hugged my boys.
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