My First Life as a Nurse

CCU, night shift: A code blue runs for hours, we open the man’s chest and do internal heart massage, he is purple and occasionally opens his eyes, to our horror. CCU, night shift: A patient who is clearly used to giving orders asks me why I am bothering with a book written 600 years ago. CCU, night shift: We think a woman’s aorta is dissecting [Aortic dissection: a potentially fatal tear in the aorta’s inner wall which causes blood to flow between the wall’s layers, forcing them apart; a surgical emergency associat

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