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Originally Posted by pavulon
"stopping breathing" during a procedure on vocal chords (or any procedure in surgery) is not especially uncommon. Sub-optimal airway and/or ventilation situations do not routinely result in a patient being listed in "critical condition." This is not to say that problems don't occur but the report linked is strongly suspect for being incomplete, sensationalized, inaccurate or all of the above.
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My fiance is an RN and was telling me about an incident recently where a surgery patient neglected to tell them about an allergy he had.
So after administering something (don't remember what it was) he began to drop pulse and went straight-line and turned wax-faced.
They IV'd him quickly and brought him back. She told him later about it and he said, "Oh, really? Hmm."
Get this - patient was an MD.
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She said he was officially dead for a period and that it happens now & then - no big deal if caught quickly.
I was slacked-jawed as she calmly told me the story.
