countrygirl
13-11-11, 19:44
This has to be the only up side of HA. Due to having had it all my life I am a walking medical encyclopedia!! mixed with working in medical setting at one time and training in first aid and first responding etc in the past.
Today a gentleman at the hotel I was having lunch in suddenly collapsed and his wife and others said oh he has just fainted as it was warm but his wife asked me for help to get him up onto his chair. He was partially round so we got him onto chair but he suddenly went again and was making horrible noises which I know to be bad sign so I felt his pulse and it was incredibly slow about 20bpm so I told staff to get ambulance and tell them it is heart and he is unconscious. It turned out that he had had quadruple bypass a few years ago. I was willing his heart to keep going while we waited for ambulance as I did not want to have to do cpr although I am well trained in it. thankfully after about 15 mins first reponders turned up and I could hand him over and then ambulance about 10 mins later and they took him off still unconscious.
His wife thanked me and I said I did not do anything but she said it was my confidence that I could cope if necessary that had helped her alot. It tuned out that no one else in the dining room had a clue what to do. The manager said they would have phoned ambulance but they would not have taken his pulse so info would have been lacking.
Today a gentleman at the hotel I was having lunch in suddenly collapsed and his wife and others said oh he has just fainted as it was warm but his wife asked me for help to get him up onto his chair. He was partially round so we got him onto chair but he suddenly went again and was making horrible noises which I know to be bad sign so I felt his pulse and it was incredibly slow about 20bpm so I told staff to get ambulance and tell them it is heart and he is unconscious. It turned out that he had had quadruple bypass a few years ago. I was willing his heart to keep going while we waited for ambulance as I did not want to have to do cpr although I am well trained in it. thankfully after about 15 mins first reponders turned up and I could hand him over and then ambulance about 10 mins later and they took him off still unconscious.
His wife thanked me and I said I did not do anything but she said it was my confidence that I could cope if necessary that had helped her alot. It tuned out that no one else in the dining room had a clue what to do. The manager said they would have phoned ambulance but they would not have taken his pulse so info would have been lacking.