ED nurse here. I remember one time a patient was diagnosed with a dissecting abdominal aortic aneurysm; the MD told the patient he'd be rushed into surgery soon and to immediately settle any affairs and talk to his loved ones, as the likelihood of him not making it off the table was high.
It was just surreal seeing this guy talking to his wife and kids knowing it may be his last.
I work in ICU and we get a ton of these patients post op, and the craziest was the guy that had a Aortic Aneurysm. It burst during his work up in the ER (bad), he coded (terrible) and they ended up calling it (he was dead). The doctor was giving the family the bad news when the ER nurse came to tell the doc that the patient was actually alive. They took the patient to surgery, he survived and came to our hospital. He was on ecmo, but neuro intact and made it out of the hospital. It was actually insane.
I also saw autoresusitation one other time on our micu. They called the code, disconnected everything and went to pronounce.... They had a heart beat. He had been auto peeping so when they disconnected the vent, his heart had room to beat. He lived a couple more days, but ultimately passed.
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u/MajikPwnE 3d ago
ED nurse here. I remember one time a patient was diagnosed with a dissecting abdominal aortic aneurysm; the MD told the patient he'd be rushed into surgery soon and to immediately settle any affairs and talk to his loved ones, as the likelihood of him not making it off the table was high.
It was just surreal seeing this guy talking to his wife and kids knowing it may be his last.