I started to understand the realities of potential PTSD with a particular patient. When I was a resident, we admitted a guy whose ICD started firing while he was feeling fine and mowing his lawn. He freaked out,…
Intensivist here. We consider sustained V-tach (defined as 30 seconds duration or greater) to be an emergency (which I define to mean that if we don't do something immediately, really bad stuff could happen within…
I started to understand the realities of potential PTSD with a particular patient. When I was a resident, we admitted a guy whose ICD started firing while he was feeling fine and mowing his lawn. He freaked out,…
Intensivist here. We consider sustained V-tach (defined as 30 seconds duration or greater) to be an emergency (which I define to mean that if we don't do something immediately, really bad stuff could happen within…