{"id":4,"date":"2009-05-27T13:49:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T12:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/?p=4"},"modified":"2009-05-27T13:49:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T12:49:13","slug":"my-first-crash-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/2009\/05\/27\/my-first-crash-call\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Crash Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;margin: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/i584.photobucket.com\/albums\/ss288\/offjo01\/john_offen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"205\" \/>Today I witnessed my first crash call.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>To be honest I did not actually realise what was happening till I saw nurses running around shouting \u2018where is it?\u2019.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I followed the general stampede, and with a move worthy of a rugby forward about to score a try, dodged past two health care assistants trying to stop me adding to the numbers in the already crowded room.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I was not going to miss this, perhaps my one opportunity to attend a crash call during my training.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Doctors and nurses swarmed around the unfortunate patient who had suffered a massive MI on returning from surgery.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I was alarmed at how disturbed I felt about the experience.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>This was real exciting medicine, but somehow it did not feel like that.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I felt sad for the old man in obvious pain and distress amongst a room of strangers who did not even know his name.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>They fought to save his life, but in a strange way he, the man, was forgotten in the process.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I knew it was important for my training, but I felt slightly ashamed to be a spectator intruding on this private tragedy. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I witnessed my first crash call.\u00a0 To be honest I did not actually realise what was happening till I saw nurses running around shouting \u2018where is it?\u2019.\u00a0 I followed the general stampede, and with a move worthy of a rugby forward about to score a try, dodged past two health care assistants trying to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/2009\/05\/27\/my-first-crash-call\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[495,822,1192,1190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardiac-arrest","category-crash","category-evidence-based-nursing","category-student-nurse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}