Another time, a woman just looked off, but somehow better than she has for 2 days. She was young, chest infection, few other bits going on but nothing serious. Wasn’t my patient but on my unit. I spoke to the doctor who happened to be my friend too, and I said: “I think this woman is going to go off”. That’s our way of saying they will have a cardiac arrest. My doctor friend knew what I’m like so just eyeballs the patient, says I’m being dramatic and she’s looking good, numbers are great, no reason for worry. Well an hour later shes completely hypoxic, goes blue and arrests. No warning signs at all, I’d got the other nurse to check her really closely because of my gut feeling, and there wasn’t a reason to suspect she would arrest until she went blue and collapsed.
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