A: Help! Are you a doctor? My poor little Frankie has
stopped breathing! Oh my gosh, Help me! I tried
to perform CPR, but I just don ’t know if I could
get any air into his lungs! Oh, Frankie!
B: Ellen, get him hooked up to a monitor! Someone
page Dr. Howser. Get the patient to hold still, I
can ’t get a pulse! Okay, he ’s on the monitor.
His BP is falling! He’s flatlining!
A: NOOOOOO! Frankie! Nurse! Do something!
B: Someone get her out of here! Get me the de-
fibrillator. Okay, clear!Again! Clear! Come on!
dammit! I’m not letting you go! Clear! I’ve got a
pulse!
C: Okay, what ’s happening?
B: The patient is in acute respiratory failure, I think
we ’re going to have to intubate!
C: Alright! Tube ’s in! Bag him! Someone give him
10 cc’s of adrenaline! Let’s go, people move,
move!
A: Doctor, oh, thank god! How is he?
B: We managed to stabilize Frankie, but he ’s not
out of the woods yet; he ’s still in critical condi-
tion. We ’re moving him to intensive care, but…
A: Doctor, just do whatever it takes. I just want my
little Frankie to be okay. I couldn’t imagine life
without my little hamster! |