So as some of you know I work for an EMS company out where I live in the country just north of San Antonio, Texas. So I had just started work and was doing the truck check with my Paramedic partner for the day, when we got toned out for a patient having chest pain. I didn't think it would be anything serious as we get calls for chest pain all the time and a good 75% of the time we are able to keep it under control (chest pain is usually associated with having a heart attack). So we arrived on scene to find that the patient was really having a hard time and was starting to go into a fibrillation in which the heart is basically not doing much (I trying to keep this at a medical for dummies level in explaining this story). So in serious calls such as this we will have a fire fighter drive us into the hospital so that both medics (me and my partner) can work the patient. So off we went in our normal lights and sirens to the hospital. I thought we were doing good and keeping things under control. He was staying with us and remaining conscious. However his heart rhythm was getting progressively worse and worse. And all of a sudden he lost consciousness and was gone. So at this point i hadn't given up but i was preparing for the worst and thinking that he was probably not going to make it (judging by my past experience and stats about ppl that go into this kind of heart attack and loose their pulse...basically they are dying because their heart has stopped beating) so immediately my partner after realizing the patient had no pulse started CPR as I started managing the patients airway and applying the shock pads. Anyhow we ended up getting him back after working him for an hour in our ambulance and in the ER. Now you may be wondering why i'm writing this long ass thread and its simply because i'm super siked about the call and that over the last coupe weeks i have lost some patients that were in the same condition as this person and it was getting to me a little bit (nothing that i was doing wrong it was jst their time to go). So it was a very cool thing to bring someone back to life. This person was still relatively young also which made it all the more exciting. He is still in ICU but doing a lot better than he was before and he didn't die in my care which is a good thing.
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