Faces Of Death

Last night's tour of duty was not that of a hustle except for a few surgical patients. But around 4:30 to 5:30 in the morning, I saw two people die in front of me. One died in the ICU while the other one died at the ER.

Around 4:30 in the morning, when I was about to sleep in one of the ER beds, a page was being sent by the operator saying a code 99 occurred in one of the rooms in the 4th floor. After the page, I stand up went upstairs with one of my ER residents. Upon arrival at the room, residents from the internal medicine department were already there. Patient was then transferred to ICU, while in the ICU patient suffered a cardiac arrest and I did CPR on the patient on alternates with another doctor. Eventually after 30 minutes of resuscitation, the patient eventually expired.

While resuscitation was ongoing at the ICU, one of the ER nurses called telling us that a patient arrive at the ER arrested. So after the patient expired at the ER, I went down right away at the ER to take a look at the situation. Resuscitation at the ER was on going and eventually after another 10 minutes the patient was declared dead. It was somehow gloomy to see to people die in front of you. After 2 hours, I ate breakfast then we had our morning endorsements and I was homeward bound. Pleasant Day