Monday, December 12, 2005
~ 3 Deaths within a space of 13 hours.... ~
11:54:00 pm
3 deaths within 2 days... And all within a space of 13 hours... What's more, 2 of the dead patients died while I was on shift... How 'lucky' can I get?
Honestly, it was a very challenging period for me... My first patient who passed away yesterday just before passing over of report, was a Coroner's case... When a patient who dies under Coroner's case, it is not an easy feat... Having to photocopy EACH AND EVERY SINGLE COPY of the patient's notes, writing a very PROPER report for whatever that is written will be reviewed by the State Coroner... *Sigh*...
Tough luck... To think that this is my first death case and it's a Coroner's case...
My second patient who passed away this morning, was almost made into a Coroner's case but thankfully, they decided that it's a non-Coroner's case... *Phew*... Anyway, the death of this particular patient was very, very sudden for he appeared to be normal at the time when I was serving the patient his medication... In fact, the patient's uncle was around for quite sometime...
Well, what I can remember was that I was following the Doctor's rounds with the main discipline doctors... Was walking towards the Nurses' station when the overflow doctors just came running out of the isolation ward, shouting "
Resus, resus!!"... Putting on my N95 mask, ran into the isolation to see what really happened and what I found was really shocking...
I shall not go into details but it was an active resuscitation... ETT was inserted but in the end, patient was pronounced dead... After the whole resusctation was done, I ended up getting chased away by my more senior staffs... It was such a SUDDEN shock for me that I ended up in tears... To be honest, I'm not shocked of what I saw but because of the sudden demise of the patient, for he appeared so well when I was giving him his medications... It was just SO unexpected... But luckily for me, I managed to regained composure soon enough...
It made me realised that ANYTHING can happen ANYTIME... So, treasure your loved ones before you lose them... You'll never know when or where it will happen... *Sigh*...
written, NaDiaH eRNiYaNTi
