My First Save

A couple of days ago I was at the local hospital completing my Advanced Cardiac Life Support course (which is learning how to run a code) and I actually got to perform my first 'save'. lol

Actually, me and one of the other guys in my group were sitting outside eating our lunch (since we were the cheap ones and brought our lunch instead of buying our lunch) and then I saw his lunch bag fly through the air. It definitely caught my attention. When I looked over to where he was running I saw a very elderly lady (probably in her 90's) and, who I presume was her son, holding her up as she was crumpling to the ground as they were trying to get to the Emergency Department. So, I ran over to them too. The other medical student held up the women as I went and got a wheelchair. We both put her in the chair and he held her up in the chair and I pushed the chair into the hospital. We both noticed that her right side was drooping and we thought - man, she is having a stroke! Funny thing was, that we had just had a lecture on strokes.

The triage nurses came out to help us, took her information, and then we brought her right into the triage room. The poor dear was so upset and confused, I felt bad for her.

When we got into the triage room, the nurses asked if we worked at the hospital (since we were both dressed in scrubs) and I promptly replied that we were eating our lunch outside and that we were medical students doing ACLS....really, we don't know anything!!!!!

The bad thing is that I'll never know what happened to that lady. I do hope that we was alright.