You should have felt good!!!! That's what we are there for, after all!

RE: Torsades - see it all the time! I'm surprised it's so rare to your department...maybe it's a west coast arrythmia! LOL
Kim | Homepage | 02.28.07 - 6:02 pm | #

Awesome! Well done.
Armed & Christian | Homepage | 02.28.07 - 9:41 pm | #

"oh crud"....truer words never spoken. But thank God a happy outcome. Makes you feel pretty good to be a part of that doesn't it.
ERnursey | Homepage | 02.28.07 - 11:28 pm | #

We see it all the time here too in the Rockies. Almost always an electrolyte problems. But a satisfying, one shock (usually) save!
Great job
Maria | 03.01.07 - 4:40 pm | #

ah, torsade...
Glad you saved her.
Boinkie | Homepage | 03.02.07 - 12:30 am | #

All you ppl out there in ER land are heroes---brave and true---It's great when it all comes together!!!
Mamabear | 03.04.07 - 7:17 pm | #

What a great story. Thank God there are nurses like you. Pat yourself on the back, Brother. YOU deserve it!

MJ
Motherjones-rn | Homepage | 03.05.07 - 10:30 am | #

Whoa. Now THAT'S a real tale from the trench.

You make me jealous. I can't wait to start my clinical years. Hope I get to see torsades de pointes sometime before I kick the bucket too :P
The Angry Medic | Homepage | 03.05.07 - 8:39 pm | #

Angry Medic, if you stay in the ER long enough, you'll see plenty of odd things. In fact, if you stay in the ER for a mere ten minutes, you'll see more odd things than you'd wished.
NurseWilliam | Homepage | 03.05.07 - 10:50 pm | #

Yikes! and 'Hey!' works just fine. Nice job.
mama mia | Homepage | 03.08.07 - 9:54 am | #

I've had a couple of patients surprise me with perfusing v-tach, and "oh crud" is exactly the right response. I'd heard docs say that electricity is the best medicine, but didn't believe it until I'd done it a few times.

Nicely done.
PDXEMT | Homepage | 03.08.07 - 11:36 am | #

So that's what torsades looks like. I have LQTS. They tell me it pre-disposes me to torsades de pointes. Now at least I'll know what I'm missing.
emmy | Homepage | 03.08.07 - 1:49 pm | #

Saw some torsades the other night, and my second thought was something like, "Oh crud." The first thought was, "Hey, cool...torsades!"

sick, probably.
/jo
JustCallMeJo | Homepage | 03.11.07 - 4:01 am | #

Cool! I'm a new grad RN in critical care, and I just finished my ACLS certification class today, so reading about your experience was especially fun. That's so awesome that so much can happen in a mere 10 seconds. =)
ChiaLing81 | Homepage | 03.23.07 - 4:36 am | #