The patient was laying there with the doctor at his head while they were trying to resuscitate him. Imagine the doctor’s surprise when the anesthesiologist burst into the room and pushed him away. Normally the person who is at the patients head is in charge, they coordinate the process and normally it is the doctor. It isn’t important who is at the head of the patient but whoever is must coordinate the rest of the team working on the patient.
Obviously when trying to resuscitate a patient you need to know some little things like what does the pulse look like and is he breathing. Denise, well that’s Dr. Denise, came in and was surprised to see the room was full people so this patient probably receiving grade A care.
No, that isn’t what Denise was thinking. Essentially the room was full of people who were doing the medical equivalent of picking their nose. How can we be so sure that that the level of care was somewhat less top notch? Well, the patient didn’t have a EKG monitor connected to him, which makes it difficult to know when you should stop massaging the chest, so Denise asked that a monitor be brought in.
Yup that is a very serious thing but in this case it wasn’t such a problem as it didn’t take more than a few seconds to see that the patient was breathing as well. It was probably the worse resuscitation ever. The anesthesiologist didn’t do his job, the other medical people also didn’t know what equipment would be needed nor what should be done.