Add to Watchlist. "Who's your neurosurgeon, remind me? Upon clarification, the woman says, "Oh, I thought you were going to tell me I was dying. "Why do I always get the nut cases?" She shakes her head and bends to fill out the hernia man's chart. Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH is a medical documentary series which premiered on British Columbia's Knowledge Network on January 21, 2014. Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH I expect a joke, but I don't get it. Finkel pauses to catch up on the status of patients in the Acute/Trauma unit. He gets a word out, but then stops as if frozen. So withdrawal seems likely, yet aspects of her vital signs give them pause. ", "So what I'd do is bring you into the hospital, get an ultrasound of your heart. This documentary was shot in the emergency room at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California but the same harsh reality plays out in emergency rooms all across the country. doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston graciously allowed me to shadow them for eight and a half hours as they made their rounds. It's not good when so many people are waiting.". 3 episodes. "He's a healthy kid, takes care of himself," says his moustachioed father. You may purchase the DVD either through the ACEP Bookstore or Amazon.com or iTunes. He's seen the patient before and gives him a hail-fellow-well-met pat on the shoulder. "She's not playing with a full deck. Mass General is again open to ambulances. She graduated from Stanford and Harvard Medical School, and she finished her residency here last June. I really enjoyed the documentary. ", Keeping up with David Tancredi can pose a challenge even to the physically fit.Peter Tyson/© WGBH Educational Foundation, The elderly man with the low heart rate is finally wheeled out of Bay 2. The man agreed to allow me in (as well as Gustin and the medical students), but I feel badly for him that his very serious condition is made so openly public before a crowd of strangers. "Love some," Finkel responds but keeps moving. Finkel visits a man in Bay 5. Finkel and several residents gather around a wall-mounted board to discuss patients, most of whom Finkel has yet to see. It's unbelievable. : beeping wall monitors, ringing phones, printers spitting out EKGs, beepers going off, loud pages over the intercom. In Bay 1, I see my first patient with Tancredi. Glancing at the clock, Fish nods toward the empty bay and says matter-of-factly to Tancredi, "It's nearing last call. That is, when confronted with a condition as serious as this, an E.D. Its roof crumpled, windshield smashed, a sports car took a nasty roll on the slick highway. Dr Gunther von Hagens recreates serious injuries on human bodies to reveal what happens to the body when faced with assaults or accidents and to show what first-aiders, paramedics and physicians can do to preserve life against the clock. We dip into other rooms—surgery, orthopedics, radiology. Autopsy: Emergency Room | Minutes From Death. The 15-year-old hemophiliac has passed out on his bed. Noticing my reaction, Fish juts his chin toward the bay in question, smiles, and says, "I can hear him talking, so clearly his heart hasn't stopped." So to make room for other patients, he will soon be moved to the so-called Step-Down Unit. by Michelle da Silva on January 21st, 2014 at 11:42 AM. With old people, we think arrythmia." We worry a lot more. The patient, still unconscious, lies alone in Bay 3. "It's so busy that we can't bring in more patients," she says. So I thank Tancredi and Fish for their time and turn to go. When the patient tells him he previously had a heart attack and bypass surgery for his legs, Tancredi asks what medicines he's currently taking. Just one thing, I was told: Don't call it the E.R. Again Tancredi says "Who's that?," this time turning the boy's head towards his father. Even as I think, "With all these people running around, how does anybody know who anybody else is?" For a busy emergency-room doctor like David Tancredi, sitting down can come as an unexpected pleasure. Gustin waves me into Bay 7, where a 36-year-old man passed out at work today without any warning. While the documentary looks at the crisis through the eyes of an emergency room doctor at Cremona Hospital in northern Italy, the story is universal. Slight of build, eyes alive with intelligence, Tancredi exudes an aura remarkably avuncular for someone not yet 40. "There aren't many things that cause visual hallucinations.". We pause by Bay 2, where an elderly man lies drifting in and out of sleep. Even as Fish begins to joke around, he straps an oxygen mask on the patient and, along with Nikkanen and the nurse, begins attaching various diagnostic devices and tubes to the man's chest and arms. If I were in the same position, I'd probably say no, too. Thank you for your interest in 24|7|365 - The Evolution of Emergency Medicine. ", "Oh, he's definitely going to be admitted," Tancredi says. Finkel asks a 94-year-old woman with a swelling on her calf whether I can come in. While she talks with a resident about a patient in for disimpaction of his bowel, Finkel devours a banana. analyze EKGs on computers, make and take calls, and otherwise try to keep up with an escalating workload. That means we'll have all the records. However I think they could have done it a bit more respectfully for both the live models and body donors. What we're in the business of doing down here is ruling out the biggest threats, the worst things that it could be. "The question is whether to put him in the intensive-care unit or not. The nurse tells Finkel that the man has been excreting blood. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. Due to the snowstorm, traffic is at a near dead stop. "Who's that?" After a brief discussion with the wheelchair man, Tancredi turns to talk to a mother who is holding a bloody cloth to the head of her 15-year-old son, a hemophiliac who got drunk and fell down some steps. I stay out of everybody's way. In the middle of Emergency Nurses Week (October 11-17), a new feature-length documentary on emergency nurses is premiering on October 14. But I do wonder if maybe your heart is trying to tell you that it's not getting enough oxygen. "Fish"Peter Tyson/© WGBH Educational Foundation. FAIRFIELD — ”The Waiting Room,” a documentary film about 24 hours at the emergency room at Oakland’s Highland Hospital, has been named to several top-10 lists for 2012. No. Tancredi steps out of Bay 3 for a moment, and, not knowing what is going on, I risk asking him to give me an update. Finkel jokes with Jonathan Fisher, the chief resident, about the woman's drooling hallucination. doctors must have that feeling all the time. Finkel begins asking her litany of questions, which the man's bearded son, still in his overcoat, translates for him. She's a red-haired woman in her 50s or 60s who has pain in her legs, which have had blood clots in the past. The man has awoken, and he leaned down till his head met his shackled hand and pulled the tube out. The woman gives her assent, and Finkel gets on with her questioning. The 36-year-old man who passed out at his office signs his own release and leaves. asks one, a beefy, good-natured cop. After examining the woman, who recently had an esophagectomy (an operation on her esophagus to remove cancer), Finkel deems her pain a surgical complication and calls for a surgeon to come see her. Outside the room, Dr. Barbara Angus, a resident, catches Tancredi up on work already done on the girl. Unfortunately, it's in his speech area.". We'll be able to tell from that how well your heart is pumping. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers and emergency nurses featured in the film. "Good for you. Ten people crowd into Bay 3: four EMTs, two cops, Tancredi, Fish, Dr. Heikki Nikkanen (a resident), and an RN. He jerks his thumb back towards Bay 6, to which the woman's been moved. The second season of Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH continues to examine the high-intensity, life-and-death stakes of emergency medicine, and the important issues that arise. Tancredi's preferred stride is a near-run, as if everything's a crisis, which I guess is not an inappropriate way for an E.R. ", A nurse standing nearby uses that to comment about young hot-rodders taking their wheels out in this storm. His parents hover over him, giving Tancredi the details of his accident. She's had it all: appendix out, hysterectomy, repaired hernia, breast cancer, high blood pressure, a polyp in her colon. I'm not sure what's causing this discomfort. Emergency Room Being photographed by Christian was also for us a complete new situation, but great fun anyway. Tancredi (looking at me): "We used to stock it. A nurse tells Finkel there's an old man in the hallway who has reduced his own hernia, because he was sick of waiting. "I found no relief here, so I applied my own expertise. But I think we need to take what you're saying pretty seriously, because you do have some risk factors for heart disease. No. Signs are that you have early congestive heart failure. The woman claimed that a half-lab, half-terrier was walking around in the room. Also, we have to find out what the cause is, and that's hard.". As we gather by the patient board so Finkel can fill Tancredi in, residents crowd around him like students before a respected teacher, seeking his approval of their diagnoses. Three hours? ", Never a dull moment: Residents in the E.D. "He's been like that for hours," she says languorously. EMTs burst through the double doors, wheeling in a gurney bearing an unconscious man dressed only in boxer shorts. Amidst real life-and-death situations, McGarry follows a dedicated team of charismatic, young doctors-in-training as they wrestle openly with both their ideals and with the realities of saving lives in a complex and … "The entire place is full. Everybody clears out of Bay 3 for the chest X-ray. The second season of Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH continues to examine the high-intensity, life-and-death stakes of emergency medicine, and the important issues that arise. The board lists each patient's last name, along with his or her complaint, room number, time in, registered nurse, and any labwork, X-rays, or other tests. This machine is quick, effective and very hard to watch. Emergency Room: Life and Death at ... A doctor reveals a surprising consequence of being on a popular documentary series. The man wakes violently into a sitting position and tries to blow out the tube, of which only an inch or so protrudes from his nose. Read on. Tancredi glances back at the monitor. Electronic noises fill acoustic niches in the E.D. The movie follows 16 nurses from across the US who find themselves in the thick of such public health crises as … After hearing about all the patients, Tancredi decides not to renew the divert. Half a minute later, as Tancredi and I stand at the main desk in MAMP, I see the red tube go flying. "It could be an infection, or maybe the guy's not complying with his medication." "Okay, he can go, but let me see him first," Finkel says. "I'm going against your wisdom. Yes. "People are screaming, 'I've been waiting three hours.' He tells her he will order an ultrasound of her leg to see if the pain is being caused by a clot or is musculoskeletal in nature. Finkel asks. Fish: "Why can't she be just plain old nuts?". Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens.Email AddressZip CodeSubscribeMany of us have seen "E.R."
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