Thread by @Gautaamm

The first practice I was at in the US was a 2 doctor office. I worked in one half with 2 assistants and the other dentist in the other half.

One of my assistants had been in the business for over 30 years. She knew her s**t. When my colleague relocated, I asked the

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office manager to have him assist the new guy because he was very fresh and inexperienced.

One day, I was in the middle of a tough root canal when she came running and said "Dr.G stat" and ran back.

I literally stopped what I was doing, told the assistant to stay with my

patient and ran over to the other side. One look at the patient and I knew he was having a heart attack.

I yelled out "911" which is the emergency helpline, asked them to say "suspected heart attack" which would get the paramedics on their way.

We got the patient on

Nitroglycerin 0.5 mg sub lingual and on Oxygen. I got one assistant to get the blood pressure continuously monitored but I could literally hear his heart pounding away.

The other dentist looked like he was going to have a heart attack so we got him away from the scene clearing

chairs and other patients in the reception area so the paramedics could come in asap.

I got one more Nitro in by the time the paramedics came. He had already started improving by then. They did their thing and took him to the Emergency Room which happened to be across the

street fortunately.

As two of them wheeled him out, the chief turned around and asked me "Well done!. You saved his life"

I said to him "Actually I work on the other side. She called me over so technically she did."

I narrated the story to him and he said "You are damn right

she did. Now if only the doctors listened to the nurses the way you do to your assistant."

Listen to your nurses doctors!

Well said @EM_RESUS!

#nurses #doctors #Emergency #stat