20 years ago...

[NomadicMedic]

A Chicago Fire cardiac arrest response from 20 years ago.

Posted just for the "wow, things have sure changed" factor.

 

[DesertMedic66]

Pretty sure that's how full arrests in LA county are still ran...

 

[NomadicMedic]

...if I ran a code like that today, pretty sure the QI would be ... Painful.

Now back in the day, a quick look with LP5 paddles and dumping meds down the tube was pretty much standard of care.

 

[ERDoc]

Damn. I was hoping to see a Thumper thrown on.

 

[chaz90]

Hey look, intra-arrest induced hypothermia (albeit environmental in nature)!

Makes you wonder if our arrest resuscitations of today will look similarly archaic in 2035. "Haha, look at that medic giving an asystolic patient 10x 1 mg IV epinephrine doses...What were they thinking?"

 

[PotatoMedic]

Was that a car battery and jumper cables?! And ET drug admin.

 

[RocketMedic]

The jet in suff later and the compressions

 

[NomadicMedic]

The old "orange box" demand head. Those things could blow up a belly.

But the compressions. Amazing that they saved anyone, ever.

 

[akflightmedic]

Ahhh, the good ol days! LOL!

I still remember the last code where I did epi down the tube....was around 1995 or 1996. I remember the patient/transport clearly...was a "simple" interfacility run of a terminal AIDS patient.

 

[johnrsemt]

I had a doctor order drugs down the tube 7 years ago when I called to get permission to stop working the patient. Drugs down the tube (since they weren't working IV) and transport. When I got to the hospital, the ED doctor for the room (our medical director) called him before we moved the patient over and asked why I brought him in. About that time the radio doctor walked in and started screaming that we weren't doing anything to the patient. I responded "we are, we are getting him ready for the ME". Medical director took over from there, as soon as he stopped laughing

 

[Clare]

Drugs down the ET tube in cardiac arrest were included in the first set of Clinical Procedures I got in 2007.