EMERGENCY MEDICINE TRAINING

This is a blog about the journey to become an emergency medicine physician.

Saturday, November 18, 2006

Tolerance

The attending tells me to administer ativan and haldol to a belligerent alcoholic. I go over there, do just that and wait. Around a minute or two later he is chilled and sleeping. Soon after the nurse comes running and says my patient is bleeding. I go over to him and see he has ripped out his IV and is storming out the door. I follow and start yelling "security! security!" to no avail. He escapes into the night.

We expected to see him again later BIBEMS but he never came back.

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