good news from the Park

I just heard that a patient who was a complete disaster in my ER wound up doing really well. We had transferred her out for the emergent cath, where they ballooned and stented two 100% occlusions, and she recovered with no signs of muscle damage.

I remember her case because it was such a nightmare. . . IV in the foot, multiple defibrillations, difficult tube that we finally got anaesthesia to do. . . and meanwhile, the ER is just continuing to go crazy around us. I was going to get her transferred out if I had to set my hair on fire to do it, if only to reduce the census of critical ER patients by one. She was comparatively young, so I'm glad to hear that she did well.