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This week on Challenge Accepted, I'm going to see what it's like to be a triage officer in an emergency room during a mass casualty incident.
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How about this come down?
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Sounds good.
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The catch is, I'm not a doctor.
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And this entire hospital, it's not real.
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We're putting Michelle through a real -life simulation of a one -hour mass casualty incident.
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This is where real doctors, nurses learn we've essentially designed a live -action hospital video.
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Over 30 actors playing patients, real nurses, and doctors.
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Where Michelle will have to make split -second life or death decisions.
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I'm worried about her.
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Her airway's closer.
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Can I make the vertical incision?
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How do you tell someone that someone has died?
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We've seen it a million times on TV, but how close is it to the real thing?
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Everyone needs a tag.
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Everyone needs a tag.
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Find out on this week's episode of Challenge Acceptable.
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Simulation starts in three, two, one, two, one, two, one.
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One.
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One.
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We want to get to Southern California on alert this morning after getting hit by the largest earthquake there in two decades,
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sparking more than 160 aftershocks.
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You can see the damage of 500 people were hurt.
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All right, there's an earthquake, so we're going to get people coming in left, right, and center.
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Ambulances, people walking in, crawling in, personal cars.
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Do we know how many are coming?
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We have no idea so we have to prepare for anything
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and that's where your triage skills are really going to be essential
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That you need to sort all these patients
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that are coming in My role as a triage officer is to quickly assess the patients arriving at the emergency department
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And assign them a color based on their injury severity level with the hope of saving as many lives as possible So
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if you've seen the pit what Michelle is going to be
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experiencing today during an MCI is very similar with one big distinction They're actors.
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They have lines.
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Michelle does not know what she's walking into.
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She has to rely on this one -day quick education that we presented to her.
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So I don't envy her.
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Dr. Mike, good to see you again.
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Good to see you, yes.
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I'm Dr. Mike Varshavski, board -certified family medicine physician and content creator online, especially on YouTube.
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Star chest impressions!
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One of the most influential medical educators online.
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25 million followers, the legendary Dr. Mike Marschewski.
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Yes, Dr. Mike is in our video!
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So Dr. Mike has the incredible experience of not only being a healthcare and science communicator,
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but also practicing every single week in the field on real patients.
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So I asked Dr. Mike to come in and make this simulation as real as possible.
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In one day, we're going to try
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and simulate four years of medical school to teach Michelle what to do during the MCI.
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What you're going to be going through tomorrow is very similar to what we train all our emergency department staff on.
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Yes, I'm a doctor.
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I'm a family medicine physician.
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So the training I have doesn't really prepare me fully for an MCI.
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It's the experts like Ryan, like Brett.
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They're the ones who have the experience to not just practice it in real life,
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but also to teach it on a very high level to doctors like myself.
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So I'll be getting a lot of value today, too.
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So we're going to teach you how to sort patients so
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that we make sure that we can do the most good for the greatest number of patients possible.
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How do I do that?
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So there will be four categories I can sort patients into.
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Whoa!
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What the?
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We have a simulated patient here.
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I can do it.
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Fortunately there's a tool available.
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It's called Start Triage and we have a flow chart here that will direct you through the algorithm.
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I love flow charts!
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The Start Triage flow chart gives medical professionals a starting guideline
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to quickly assess patients as as they are brought into the emergency room.
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Starting with the green, we have the patients that are gonna be your most minimally injured.
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The first question is, is the patient able to walk?
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If yes, they're immediately assigned to green.
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Please walk towards me.
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Yes, that's already green.
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Easy.
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Bam.
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We're done.
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Ow.
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Going on to yellow, this is called delayed.
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So the patients that are definitely going to need care, but they don't need it right away.
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Yellow means the patient cannot walk, but might still have stable vitals and mental status.
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Breathing, they are breathing.
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Respiratory rate is less than 30.
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Okay, perfusion.
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When you check for perfusion, you push down on their nail.
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And when you let go, if it goes from white to normal color in less than two seconds, we move on to check their mental status.
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Can you wave your hand?
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Okay, so, you have a final answer.
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The red patients are gonna be your most critical patients, the ones that need immediate medical care.
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They have something that you're detecting is abnormal in either their breathing rate, their perfusion.
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or the way that they're responding to you and following commands.
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They're not walking.
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Heavy breathing.
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Respiratory rate is...
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40!
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High respiratory rate.
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That's red.
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These are the patients that have the most emergent needs.
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The black category are the patients that are either deceased or, unfortunately, there's not a lot that can be done to save them.
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It doesn't mean that we ignore them.
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We're still going to provide palliative care, but unfortunately, just there aren't the resources available like there might be on a daily basis.
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He is not walking.
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Okay, are they breathing?
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He is not breathing.
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Can we position their airway?
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So you would go over there, do a head tilt, chin lift.
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This does not include CPR.
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Unfortunately, again, because we only have one minute, and we don't have the resources to devote that many people,
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that many resources to a single patient at this point.
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But I like where you're going.
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Okay.
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I like that you're thinking about it.
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Okay.
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So unfortunately, we're going to have to tag this patient into the black category. That sucks.
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I hesitate to put the black wristband on a patient.
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It can be extremely challenging, and this algorithm helps you do a calculated evaluation on them that takes the emotion out of it.
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After the incident, people start to break down.
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They have big emotional outbursts because they were putting away their emotions for so long.
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So expect after your simulation tomorrow to feel quite stressed out.
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Simulation starts in three.
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Two.
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One.
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Let's get started with our first set here.
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My first challenge is to perform triage on an incoming wave
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of patients who were injured in a collapsed apartment building during the earthquake.
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Ma 'am, are you injured?
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She's walking, so it's green.
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I'm just gonna put this here, but if you're able to walk, go ahead and hit this way.
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Excuse me?
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Where do you feel pain, sir?
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My knees are all cut up.
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Okay.
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Hi, are you able to walk towards my voice?
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Yeah, I'm okay.
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You could probably help somebody else while you help me.
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Okay, okay.
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Well, I'm just gonna tag you here.
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This is gonna tell us how to treat you in the hospital.
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Please head in this way.
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Can you pull this thing out?
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No, do not touch it.
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So the first couple of people I see, they're walking, they're breathing, they're talking, they're responding.
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I'm green.
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Are you able to walk towards my voice?
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There's confusion here.
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There's confusion.
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Why?
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What is happening?
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She's airways.
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She's breathing.
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She has airways.
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Yeah, she's talking, but there's confusion.
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I don't know what to tag her because she can walk, but her mental stats, I'm going to say yellow.
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You have another patient.
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You have to be quicker.
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Get your staff out.
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Michelle, your patient is leaving.
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Oh my God.
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But then the cases start to become trickier and a little more complex.
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Like a patient who appears and they're able to walk, they're able to talk, but they don't seem all there mentally.
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Trying to triage this patient is sort of like trying to have a conversation with someone
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while also doing a math problem in your head
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because I am trying to calm down the patient at the
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same time trying to visually remember what the flow chart looks like and how I'm supposed to assign them.
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Ma 'am, you have lots of cuts.
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What?
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I have cuts?
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Yeah.
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I have cuts?
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Ah!
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These are humans, so they're going to give you imperfect answers at times.
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So when you're trying to evaluate someone's mental status, you say, give me a thumbs up.
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They don't give you a thumbs up.
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You can miscategorize them.
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Hi, what are you working with here?
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Okay, can you hear my voice?
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Their guts are coming out of there.
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Yeah, yeah, not important.
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Okay.
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What's important?
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They can't walk.
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Okay, I'm gonna put a red on this.
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Okay, based on what?
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Based on short of breath, can't walk.
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What are we getting breaths -wise here?
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He's breathing really slow, actually.
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He is breathing really slow.
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Okay, so you're going red, okay.
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Okay, I'm just gonna use it.
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That's okay.
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Patriage isn't my only responsibility.
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It is also my job to perform procedures on the patients that are most high risk that I categorized as red.
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When you're in front of the hospital, you're triaging.
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When you're inside the hospital, you're treated.
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This guy's got an evisceration.
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He's full blown on oxygen.
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Still able to wake up a little bit.
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Sir, are you still with us?
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What do you think of the vitals so far here?
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His heart rate is somewhat elevated.
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Yes, he's tachycardic.
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But what is the issue right here?
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We need to cover it and dress through it and call surgery immediately.
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Yes, you should love it.
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So we're going to take a look at a patient that has an evisceration.
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And an evisceration happens when you cut to your abdominal wall and some of your bowel comes out.
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It's a really bad day.
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It is a bad day.
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You do not want to ever push the abdominal contents back in
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because forcing them back in is actually not the correct move.
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So this patient is going to have to go to the OR and see a surgeon to get it put back in.
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But what you're going to do is you're going to try to preserve the bowel.
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All of the medical professionals in this simulation are actual doctors and nurses who have been instructed to carry out my commands, even if I'm wrong.
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What you want to get first is a big trauma dress.
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This is sterile saline, and you're just going to pour some in there.
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Now go ahead and pull it out and cover the bowel with that.
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We are just going to cover the wound for now and prepare you to go into surgery.
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Now this is like an inclusive type dressing.
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It's going to help keep that moisture in.
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Oh gosh, it has a very strong smell.
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Yeah, there we go.
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Let's put one there.
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Now I want you to grab that roll of tape.
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Perfect.
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Okay.
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Yeah, there you go.
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Thank you for the assist.
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Okay, did we call the OR?
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Can we call him?
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Yep, I'll call the OR.
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Thank you.
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OK, we'll get there all our prep.
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OK, move on right away.
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How are we doing in here?
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We're done here.
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The real Dr. Kare is actually not me.
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It is my dad.
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Growing up, I was actually on a course to become a physician, just like my dad.
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Instead, I became a YouTuber.
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So doing this episode is my one opportunity to hopefully make him proud.
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Also, my dad says to subscribe.
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So doctor's orders, you better subscribe.
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The biggest issue that I'm seeing in Michelle right now is that she's making mistakes triaging patients.
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Sir, can you hear my voice?
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Yes.
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OK, Brad.
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I'm starting to see emotions creep up, panic set in.
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She's freezing.
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Can you walk towards my voice?
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Can he walk on his own?
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Yeah, yeah.
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OK, OK, OK.
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That's a green.
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Yeah.
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OK.
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Green?
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You see that?
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Well, OK, chest injury.
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But he's walking.
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But he's not walking by himself.
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Does anyone know what they're doing around here?
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Red, red, red.
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OK.
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I'm just going to do red on that.
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Once you miscategorize a patient, You're starting to give resources to that patient they didn't need.
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You could be losing resources for people who can be helped.
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This is the domino effect that if you make a mistake early, it can cause you a lot of harm down the line.
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Hey.
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Hey, can we get some help?
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Can you walk towards my voice?
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My wife cannot walk.
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Okay.
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Okay, they can walk so they're both green.
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Somebody over here, please.
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Okay. Where?
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Okay.
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Hey, my name is Dr. Kari, and we're going to treat you inside.
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Keep going inside.
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After I assign a color to each patient, they will be put into a room based on that color.
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Now each of these rooms have limited beds, staff and resources.
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And the problem is, if you mis -categorize someone, it creates a chain reaction of problems in the future.
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For example, if a patient is over -categorized,
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that patient will end up taking resources from someone who needs them more.
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And a patient who is under categorized will ultimately not receive the resources they need and thus be at risk of death.
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So this is kind of like a resource allocation challenge.
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It sure is.
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Okay, how do you feel?
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That was so overwhelming.
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Remember, you have secondary triage always after the fact.
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Okay, I'm going to be more confident.
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Okay.
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While mistakes are bound to happen because patients are going to be changing their severity level, usually that severity only gets worse.
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That's why there's always a consideration made for secondary triage where we can adjust for that and catch those mistakes early.
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We're just sort of wondering when we can be seen.
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We're getting around some vitals.
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Maybe just see if any of those guys found their money.
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When inside, try not to run.
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Very easy with charms to get hurt.
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Okay.
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Remember, take care of yourself first.
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All right, start.
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Vomiting with head trauma.
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Can you tell me what happened?
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Something fell like a beam.
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ABC, you have patience.
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I'm going to teach you this basic trauma assessment.
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It's called the primary assessment.
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So first thing you want to know is just, do I have an airway?
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So that's A.
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Airway clear.
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I'm going to check breathing.
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The next one is B.
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It's breathing.
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Now we're seeing if their breathing is effective.
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Breathing is OK.
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You hear good breath sounds on both sides?
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Yeah, I mean, do you want me to double check?
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Yeah, yeah.
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And then after that, we're going to move to circulation.
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There's two big things you want to know about circulation.
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One, you want to know if they have a pulse.
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Then the second thing we're going to check is we're going to look for any major bleeds.
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So now we've done airway, breathing, circulation.
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Most of our problems are gonna happen in those three areas, and we'll have to address them to save that person's life.
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Is there a reason why you classified her as red?
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We could secondary triage her and change it.
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I think we need to move her down to yellow.
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We only have so many beds.
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Yeah.
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So I just wasted two gurneys.
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Yep.
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Make moves.
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If you put someone into the red zone where they should be in the yellow zone,
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just switching them could cause people to lose their lives you're using staff to mobilize those patients, and that can be really difficult.
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It's gonna be this female right here, so she's been complaining of blindness in her left eye and some pain.
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And I just have a lot of pain, and also my right ankle, I can't.
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She cannot walk, she's blind in one of her eyes.
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She's got glasses sticking out of it.
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And the pain's really starting to kick in.
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Like, is this gonna be, like, forever thing?
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It may not ever gonna be able to see out of my eye.
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I'm just freaking out a little bit.
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Okay.
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Yeah, yeah, I understand.
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Can we get some care, like, now?
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So right now, are you okay if I just put an IV hand in and give her some pain medications?
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And we'll get some morphine again?
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Okay, great.
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We'll get some morphine and it'll help with the pain.
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Okay?
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It's gonna be...
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I try not to lie to patients, right?
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I don't say you're gonna be okay but I do try to, I think reassurance is very important during this stuff.
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It's going to be, it's, uh, we're doing the best we can.
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Okay.
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Thank you so much.
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Okay, this gentleman here has some abdominal trauma.
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I'm fine.
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Just find my people.
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He's saying he's okay.
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I need pain medications and a CT scan.
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Okay, that sounds good.
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I agree with that.
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Four milligrams sounds good.
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We're just waiting on that.
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What are you doing here?
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Nothing.
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Literally nothing.
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Keaton Everett.
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He was the lead in the construction site and he's concerned about his med.
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Okay, we'll just give him something for the anxiety.
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Anxiety?
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What, distress? For pain?
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Four milligrams of morphine?
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Okay.
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I'm fine!
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Is he allergic to morphine?
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Are you allergic to morphine?
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No, I'm...
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That's like, I think we need to prioritize the patient's.
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Okay, then do it.
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Oh my God, okay.
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Okay, what are you doing?
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What are you doing?
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Ask questions, ask questions.
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She's unresponsive.
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If you need to manage your airway on the EMS currently, feel free to do it.
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Mike, I'm...
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You wanna listen?
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Do you want to listen first?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Listen?
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Yeah.
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Get some vitals.
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So there's a lot of things that could be happening that are disruptive that you can't even plan for.
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Being pulled in one direction then another direction is really difficult.
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How much should they be squeezing?
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Okay.
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Um, every six seconds, right?
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Yep.
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Okay.
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And then we should prep an IV for intubation so that we can give her medication so we can intubate.
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Okay.
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I'll get an IV started.
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Okay.
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We're gonna work on intubation, and that's where we're gonna secure somebody's airway.
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We would have to put a tube down their throat to help them maintain their airway.
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But the other thing it could be used for is breathing, too, because if somebody's not breathing, we could breathe for them.
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Your vital signs are coming up.
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Our sats are terrible.
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Okay, sats are terrible.
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You need to get an IV in quickly.
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Non -dominant hand.
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There we go, because you want to control the tube with your dominant hand.
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And this has to be in a place that you can see it, not where the nurses can see it.
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I am ready, yes.
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Okay.
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120 sucks us in.
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Okay.
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You have your monitor.
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What are you looking for?
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What do you see?
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I'm looking for the epiglottis.
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And then just slide that in there.
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Nice.
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You see, that's the epiglottis.
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There you go.
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Try to hit in the middle of the epiglottis.
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Back up.
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Oh, I heard teeth.
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Oh!
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I just broke someone's tooth.
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Malpractice.
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Okay.
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Oh, my God.
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And you're going to take that.
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And then this is the twisting thing once it's in there.
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Twist it.
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There you go.
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Push it just a little bit further.
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Boom.
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Okay, good.
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Now then, pop this out with your thumb.
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Out towards the stomach.
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Out towards the stomach.
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Out.
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Then bring it forward.
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Grab it with your other hand.
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This.
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Good.
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So then I will come up here, and bagging it means assist ventilations.
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Attach.
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Put on your stethoscope.
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Put on your stethoscope.
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Quick.
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Check the stomach first.
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Okay, it's not on the stomach.
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Okay.
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Chess rises present.
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Good on the left side.
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Good on the right.
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O2 sat's coming up to 94.
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Okay, that's good.
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Okay, do you want them to secure the tube?
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Yes, secure the tube.
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She's stable.
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What do you want to do?
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Now we need to push 50 micrograms of fentanyl, 2 milligrams of Versed, and a propofol drip, please.
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Can someone repeat that back to me?
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Okay.
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50 of fentanyl, 2 of Versed, and propofol drip.
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Yes.
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Thank you.
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Okay.
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During an earthquake, you're having all sorts of scenarios happen at the same time.
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But then you're also having really surprising incidents.
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Seeing a young child, someone you feel bad for.
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Hi.
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Can you hear me?
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Can you come towards me?
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Okay, she's able to move.
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Let's see if she can walk.
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I can't walk.
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You can't walk.
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Let me feel her pulse.
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Let me see your wrist. Does that hurt?
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Okay, you have multiple patients.
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Okay, got it.
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There's lots of different people speaking lots of different languages.
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Sofia, mi hija Sofia, donde estas?
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Okay.
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Lo siento hablo espanol.
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Muy malo.
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Uh...
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Can she walk?
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Can she walk?
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Sabes donde eres?
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No. She doesn't know where she is.
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Mi hija Sofia, donde estas?
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What do you think about that?
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Fracture, which she can breathe.
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She has a pulse.
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I think it's yellow.
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I think it's yellow.
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Okay, fair.
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Tell your staff.
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And that's why during an MCI like this, you have to be prepared for absolutely anything.
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My water broke about 20 minutes ago.
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Wait a minute.
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Okay.
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Can we get a stretcher for her?
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Her water just broke.
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Michelle, there's two people.
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We're still going to have patients that are coming to the hospital for other things
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that were not related to this specific incident.
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We should still triage them because we're overflip.
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Correct.
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It's for everyone because it is balancing the resources
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that are available for everyone with the number of people that are coming in.
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Hi, can you talk to me?
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Yes.
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Tell me what your name is.
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Genevieve Fink.
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Okay, what's going on?
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My water broke 20 minutes ago.
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20 minutes ago.
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Are you having contractions right now?
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Yes, right this morning.
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How far apart are they?
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Two minutes.
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Two minutes.
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Okay, yeah, let's proceed with green.
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The ladies are going to deliver a baby, I think.
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Do we have OB room a bit?
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I called OB.
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You want to put her in a room?
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Call Dovey.
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And any response?
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No. I'll call him again.
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We need to have the 11.
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Why did you change to Rhett?
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Because she's about to deliver a baby.
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Okay.
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That's not on the algorithm.
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I don't know what to do about that.
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So this patient.. is about to give birth.
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But because of all of the mistakes I've made, over categorizing people, all of the operating rooms are now full.
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See, her contractions are getting closer and closer.
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Like if she starts to deliver, I told her we're gonna have to cut her pants off.
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I just, we're out in the open, so.
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Meaning I now need to perform a procedure on one of the red tagged patients so that I can create space.
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Um.
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Yeah.
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I'm seeing what I'm seeing.
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I got another co -worker I still haven't been told what's going on with him.
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This was not going well.
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I'm worried about her.
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Her airway's closed enough.
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Her airway's just swelling up.
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We need to do rapid intubation.
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Yeah, I mean, we could try.
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She's got a lot of swelling.
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Can we go through a cry?
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That would make sense.
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Then we need to prepare for a cry.
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Okay, we're waiting for you.
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When you're ready, he's ready.
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Okay, great, great, great.
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I need the scalpel.
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There you go. And this.
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All right, now I'm going to be feeling for the thyroid cartilage.
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Good.
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And I'm going to make the vertical incision between thyroid cartilage and the cryo ring.
575
Okay, I'm cutting through the skin now.
576
Okay.
577
It just seems like after the pain medicine, she started to feel really dizzy.
578
Ow!
579
Sorry, my dear.
580
We're going to get her into the yellow.
581
We need to work with her lining.
582
We're right.
583
Okay.
584
I think this is right.
585
How far are you going to push this in?
586
Just a few inches so that we don't go down into the lungs.
587
Correct.
588
Is that the direction?
589
Thank you.
590
Can somebody pay attention to me please for a moment?
591
Hey!
592
You're last in line, bro!
593
Dude, I got here before you.
594
I don't care.
595
He can't feel his legs.
596
She can't see.
597
Okay, can we prepare a syringe so I can inflate it?
598
Tube.
599
Put it up on the tube.
600
No!
601
No!
602
No!
603
Can we just have you sit down?
604
Now this comes out.
605
Now this comes out.
606
Now this comes out.
607
And switch the CO2 onto that.
608
Okay.
609
And I promise I will call them and we'll make sure that she's taken care of.
610
You will call them?
611
Yes.
612
And they have not been called?
613
The longer that I speak to you, I can't get on the phone.
614
Okay, but can you...
615
Please take a seat and I will call to you.
616
How have you not called when we talked about it like 20 minutes ago?
617
Oh.
618
Yo, dude, dude, dude.
619
Get back in bed.
620
Oh my God.
621
The baby's coming.
622
Get back in bed.
623
Oh.
624
Hey, what's going on here?
625
Get back in bed.
626
Hey, real quick.
627
I got this.
628
Okay.
629
Okay.
630
Gold is good.
631
Let me listen to see if it's working.
632
Okay.
633
What are you listening for?
634
I'm listening to make sure that it's both lungs and not just one.
635
Oh, wait, I think I know you.
636
Wait, I know her.
637
I know her.
638
Why are you just kidding me?
639
What is happening?
640
Come on.
641
Repeat back.
642
I think it's working.
643
Okay.
644
Brad, do you feel good?
645
Yeah, I'll check it out.
646
Okay.
647
Hey, can we get the OB kit?
648
We have got to get her jeans off because that baby can help.
649
Yeah, I think she's going to deliver any second time.
650
What do you think?
651
Should we cut our jeans off?
652
Where's my doctor?
653
Get the scissors.
654
All right, come on.
655
Okay, okay.
656
Um...
657
We did a video on how to deliver a baby two years ago.
658
But that was two years ago.
659
I don't remember anything on how to do this.
660
Um...
661
Do your best.
662
Open the kit.
663
Start the process.
664
Ma 'am, Dr. Kari's here.
665
She's going to do a great job.
666
My back hurts so bad.
667
She's going to cut your jeans, okay?
668
Set this up.
669
Set this up.
670
I, uh, this is crazy.
671
This is actually crazy.
672
So we should cut her clothes off.
673
Yes.
674
Hey, listen real quick.
675
Obi just called.
676
They are upstairs.
677
The doc said he'd much rather deliver this baby upstairs.
678
I would much rather that, too.
679
Are you okay?
680
Is she stable enough for that?
681
Yes.
682
Or do you want to deliver here?
683
I think she's got to go see an upstairs.
684
Yeah, the doc says it's much better upstairs for this.
685
Tell the patient.
686
Okay.
687
We're headed up now, okay?
688
Give us five minutes.
689
We'll be there in five minutes, okay?
690
Okay, thank you.
691
Oh, thank God.
692
Easy breaths, easy breaths.
693
You're doing well.
694
But the chaos still isn't over.
695
While I was treating my patients, my staff was triaging even more patients who were now flooding into the hospital.
696
Mom!
697
Mom!
698
This is Mom.
699
Hey, Mom.
700
What's Mom's name?
701
It's Ruth.
702
Hey, Ruth.
703
It's Jack.
704
Hey.
705
The hospital is quickly approaching critical mass with every room at full capacity.
706
If my wife goes blind, I'm gonna f*ing sue you guys.
707
Like, I don't know what to tell you.
708
We get it.
709
You're important, right?
710
We get it.
711
You're the most important.
712
We've been here four times longer than you do.
713
I just checked in on this.
714
You're still in line.
715
What position in line?
716
When, when, how do I know if we're moving closer or farther?
717
And all these people are coming, we just get bumped down again and again.
718
And my wife's gonna go f*ing blind.
719
I just checked in and that's the best for you.
720
Michelle, this patient doesn't look good.
721
Do you want to check vitals?
722
That's the best you could do?
723
It's the best we can do.
724
There are tons of people here.
725
Yeah, I see that we've been here longer than all of them.
726
I think what's really difficult to grapple with is that on a normal day in the emergency room, many of these debilitating injuries could be resolved.
727
But because it is a mass casualty incident, you have to pick and choose and ultimately try to save the most number of lives possible.
728
This means making really difficult decisions like choosing to allow a patient to go blind
729
because those resources need to be used to save the life of someone else.
730
This is a patient that I miscategorized.
731
Maybe she could have gotten treatment sooner if I hadn't messed that up.
732
I'm leaving.
733
Sir.
734
I have scratches on my legs and I have a dog that's locked in.
735
These are all her current vitals.
736
She got two milligrams of morphine and she has an IV in place.
737
It's me.
738
I'm so fan of this stuff.
739
She's still looking for a child.
740
Did we call...
741
What about the young child that came in earlier?
742
Could that be her child?
743
Please, Michelle.
744
Michelle.
745
Michelle, they want a CT scan.
746
Okay, we got a CT scan.
747
Ma 'am.
748
It's very easy to freeze, to feel overwhelmed.
749
And I'm worried about Michelle feeling that emotion in the midst of all of the drama that's ongoing.
750
Patients screaming, family members getting angry about time.
751
Hello?
752
Oh, s*.
753
I didn't close it.
754
Sir, if you continue to raise your voice, I'm going to have to ask you to leave.
755
Please, please, please cooperate with that.
756
Come on, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze.
757
You need to be able to snap yourself out of it quickly in order to respond to the call
758
that is your patience.
759
Can you talk to us?
760
Can you start a BBM?
761
Can you wake up?
762
So we just could have been down a couple more inches, get her out, and then we can put in there.
763
I want to take a look.
764
You call them red, but he's agonally breathing.
765
He hasn't been responsive since you've seen him.
766
Then I think we have to move into black.
767
Okay, make choices, make choices.
768
Due to my mistakes, every red room is completely full.
769
And there was a chance that if I had been more efficient with my resource allocation, there would have been space available,
770
and we could have saved this patient.
771
But I didn't.
772
And so I have to make a really difficult choice to give him a black tag.
773
Having to be so objective about black tag is horrible, especially in a situation where if it wasn't an MCI,
774
we could have done chest compressions to try and save them.
775
But to, like, actively have to say, we have to walk away from this person.
776
That's so hard.
777
So we will have to get the name, which I'll go get with the ENTs, just for the toe tag.
778
I feel so overloaded with stimuli and decision -making fatigue
779
that I feel like I just need to sit in a quiet room and look at a wall for a few hours.
780
I have no good news for anyone,
781
and like, emotionally, not being able to provide closure is very difficult for me, and in general.
782
Brett?
783
Yes.
784
The black tag patient that came in.
785
Yeah.
786
Was he at the construction site with the other two?
787
They are.
788
That is part of the construction crew.
789
With HIPAA, are we allowed to tell them?
790
Just making sure.
791
You're a call on this.
792
Sir, can you hear my voice?
793
They did recover Brunson.
794
He came to the hospital, but when he arrived, he was unresponsive.
795
He's unfortunately passed.
796
I just wanted to tell you...
797
...because you were asking about him.
798
Thank you.
799
I'm...
800
I'm very sorry to tell you this news.
801
What we're going to experience and show the general public with this MCI is happening at scale with our healthcare system.
802
We are facing a tremendous shortage, stress, difficulties trying to give them care with limited resources.
803
So if you don't want this MCI style of healthcare, we need to make changes.
804
And I'm hoping that it starts with being kind to healthcare frontline workers,
805
being gracious when you're going in and understanding that they too are humans first and are under tremendous amount of stress.
806
Second, understanding how beautiful and limited life is, that it can be pulled away from you at any moment,
807
and you need to be grateful for it.
808
You ready for your grade?
809
Okay.
810
If we had to break up the categories for which we grade Michelle, we start with triage.
811
So we're going to have to give her an F on that one, because there were times where she was a bit panicked.
812
She was starting to get caught up.
813
Treatment, I'll give her a B minus.
814
She didn't know exactly what to do in a lot of the scenarios, not surprisingly so, but then where she really was shining is in communication.
815
Just being able to work with your team and to move people around and to prioritize and to keep checking in,
816
that is really what would save lives in a situation like this.
817
For a human being to have to be the decision maker,
818
even just today having the microscopic taste of what that means and what that feels like,
819
I have infinite love and admiration for anyone who does this profession.
820
Most people at any given moment are not sick.
821
But I can say with 100 % certainty, there will be a moment where they will be sick, where they need care.
822
Think about habits that you can change in your life, that you can improve your health, to perhaps have a better quality of life for longer.
823
This episode is dedicated to healthcare professionals everywhere who save lives every single day in real life.
824
If you enjoyed this episode, please consider subscribing.
825
And you can check out this other episode
826
I did where I worked a real 24 -hour paramedic shift in a real ambulance.
827
If you enjoyed this episode, I think you're going to love that one.
828
Till then, I'll see you in the next challenge.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “I Tried Working an Emergency Room”. This video has 827 sentences and 5814 words to shadow. The speech runs for 30:54. The speaker talks fast, about 188 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 132 of its 827 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| breathe verb | /bɹiːð/ | To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases. |
| vital adjective | /ˈvaɪtəl/ | Relating to or characteristic of life. |
| tube noun | /tuːb/ | Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape. |
| simulation noun | /ˌsɪm.jəˈleɪ.ʃn̩/ | Something that simulates a system or environment in order to predict actual behaviour. |
| chart noun | /t͡ʃɑɹt/ | A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon. |
| stomach noun | /ˈstʌmək/ | An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion. |
| nurse noun | /nɝs/ | Anyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession. |
| emotion noun | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data. |
| earthquake noun | /ˈɝθkweɪk/ | A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults. |
| trauma noun | /ˈtɹɔm.ə/ | Any injury to the body of a living thing. |
| squeeze verb | /skwiːz/ | To apply pressure (to something) from two or more sides at once. |
| upstairs adverb | /ˌʌpˈstɛɹz/ | Up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level. |
| assign verb | /əˈsaɪn/ | To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose. |
| stable noun | /ˈsteɪ.bəl/ | A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses. |
| confusion noun | /kənˈfjuːʒən/ | A lack of clarity or order. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
| back up verb | To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so. | |
| break down verb | To stop functioning. | |
| break up verb | To break or separate into pieces. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Can I make the vertical incision?
- Do we know how many are coming?
- How do I do that?
- Can you wave your hand?
- That's the best you could do?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | We've seen · you've seen · have been instructed |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | were hurt · are brought · is called |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | ones who have · people who can · someone who needs |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 197 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: breathe /bɹiːð/, earthquake /ˈɝθkweɪk/, algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, thumb /ˈθʌm/, thyroid /ˈθaɪ.ɹɔɪd/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: simulation /ˌsɪm.jəˈleɪ.ʃn̩/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, confusion /kənˈfjuːʒən/, physician /fəˈzɪʃən/, medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/, respiratory /ɹɪˈspɪ.ɹət.ə.ɹi/, severity /səˈvɛɹ.ə.ti/, casualty /ˈkæʒu.əlti/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like breathe, vital, tube.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.