@ChuckMcManis @cvvhrn Interesting - mine were definitely in the pre-tablet days. It also had a trace for the air volume, all printed on an EKG-style strip with time marks.

@cvvhrn That sounds like a really terrific training aid.

I remember feeling very well prepared to do a code; you trained on the protocols all the time, and you did it for real often enough that it was often fresh. I could probably still do it (with decades out of date protocols) 40 years later.

What kept me up fretting was worrying about slipping and paralyzing a trauma patient.

@mattblaze @cvvhrn And who sits in a hospital bed in their regular clothes? While a picture is nice I would be much more comfortable if it was video and he turned his head to both sides while talking. I am just that cynical given all the stuff the current administration has done.

Anyway, whatever you may think of Graham, perhaps his death is a useful opportunity to reinforce what to do in similar emergencies.

@mattblaze As a volunteer fireman, I had to help perform CPR on a friend who it turned out had an aortic aneurism. He didn't even make it to the hospital even though we were there two minutes after the call came in.

We performed CPR until the ambulance arrived 10 minutes later, but he was declared dead on the floor.

One of the worst days of my 15 year career. It was also another reminder that CPR rarely ends up with a success like it does on TV.

@mattblaze they rarely do. Dissection vs ruptured aneurysm matters a lot here as well, but a freely ruptured AAA in the field is lethal, and the wrong kind of dissection also carries terrible mortality. One of those rare “can’t miss” diagnoses that keeps us up at night.

@mattblaze that’s rough, Matt. Sorry for your friend, and for your loss.

@mattblaze i’m sorry for your loss

This is the same thing that got John Ritter. Even if you were on the operating room table and already opened up and the dissection started, you still don’t have good odds of survival. It is really a brutal condition

We don’t see it very often in pediatrics we will get a tornado order from a high impact collision or a fall from height or something and it’s bad

@mattblaze Sorry about your friend, I can only imagine that phone call would haunt me.