What a way to start a shift

[bonedog]

In reality this baby was one that would have died probably at birth with out medical intervention. So this call was just part of a continum that was predetermined long before you got dispatched.

I think the sensible thing for the sending doc' to do would have been give you a DNR, but, you got to run a code. There is always an upside.

I can remember most of my ped's codes, I am at 22, under 6 years old.

The first one was 27 years ago, the part that hurt the most was watching the nursing staff cut his pajama's off, little horsies, like my kid brother used to wear. That and the fact his airway was uncontrollable, too much soot and mucous. Used all my airways, unable to suction the thick mucoid ladden soot.

There is always something sad, but like Rid says, clear the upper sinus' for the next call.

You did your best.

Life is hard and then you die.h34r:

 

[rsdemt]

My first and only pedi. Code, was my first call as an aide.
We responded to a child with trouble breathing. As soon as I stepped out of the unit, the mom came running at me with this (about 6 month) old blue, breathless child. I took the child out of the mother’s hands, and started mouth to mouth. The child still had a pulse, and my driver and me basically had our thoughts the same. She jumped in the driver’s seat, I jumped in the back, mom jumped in right after me, and we rendezvoused with the medic unit. As we were pulling up behind the medic unit, the child started breathing. I actually saved this child I can still remember HIS little brown hair, green eyes and angelic face looking at me. That was 20+ yrs ago, and I still remember that call.
It was a stoppage of breathing, and NOT A CODE,, but is the closest to a pedi. code I have had.. I am sorry about your pedi code, not surviving. Just keep faith in god, and think that the next one will live.