EMERGENCY MEDICINE TRAINING

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

Friday, November 17, 2006

Vasovagal IV removal

I am taking the IV out of a small hispanic female upon discharge. Just as I do this, she looks from the removed IV to me then makes the dizzy move. The nurse and I run over around 5 seconds later, by which time the patient is still holding her purse and coat in her left hand and hasn't fallen. Then we grab her and she lets go of her strength and we bring her to the nurse's chair. I let her sit there and about 10 minutes later she is ready to go.

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