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My Baddest on- call

I guess among the baddest oncall I’ve ever done must be yesterday (8/4/2011). I just wanted to write here in my blog on how it goes.
8/4/2011 A wonderful Friday morning is spoilt with
1040 – Dengue haemorrhagic fever with recurrent epistaxis Platlet 14
1100 – Receive call from Pekan, GCS 10/15 likely stroke case. Accepted the case for transfer
1110 – Cheah (Cardio team) received a STEMI – bad heart attack case with triple inotropes and intubated
1130 – Another Stroke case GCS OK! admitted for observation
1210 – The case from Pekan arrived, GCS on arrival dropped to 7/15 then intubated, awaiting CT brain
1230 – CT brain machine broke down
1300 – OP poisoning came in- Baygon spray
1330 – Paracetamol poisoning + Detergent parasuicidal case
1400 – Decompensated heart failure SPo02 88 % came in
1500 – Septic shock with diabetic foot came
1510 – Another Inferior MI heart attack case came in
1600 – Another stroke case came in GCS 10/15
1630 – Refferal from Ortho ward
1800 – I took a nap, tiring already
1930 – Can you imagine another MI heart attack came
2000 – HDW called for short round
2100 – Alprazolam intoxicity
2100 – Mitral stenosis with APO in AF SPo2 84 %
2100 – Referral from gynae TRO ILI case
2200 – CCU called up
2230 – Dengue fever stable patient
2250 – Another stroke case
2300 – Exacerbation of COPD
2330 – Acute exacerbation of Asthma
0000 – Collapse brought in BID – resus by emergency noted Left bundle branch block – CPR 15 minutes
0100 – Went to KFC 24 hours
0230 – Another stroke patient came in
0330 – Decompesated CCF stable
0430 – Pneumonia
0530 – Asthma
0545 – Slept at home till 0700
0800 – CCU called collapsed STEMI CPR 40 minutes – and died
0900 – Passive ward round
1030 – I went back home and slept till 1600
So, thats my oncall! I managed to keep my anger down to some houseman. And you want to tell me that’s your life sucks!
Nadiah was ok with it
Cheah and I managed to ‘bungkus’ 7 patients.