Status Monitor
BP __/__
Temp __._ oC
HR ___
RR __

 

You are lucky, your colleagues in the nuclear medicine department are able to do a V/Q scan straightaway. On her way to Nu-clear Medicine, your patient becomes hypotensive while passing radiology. She has an asystolic cardiac arrest in the corridor. Despite a very aggressive code run by your radiologist, she dies.

Post mortem examination demonstrates a large right tension pneumothorax. (See card: Pulmonary Barotrauma)

 

The End