January, 21

Emergency Room (45)

Key vocabulary

1.       CPR=procedure in which air is blown into another persons lungs though their mouth

2.       gosh必定，糟了

3.       lung=肺

4.       BP=blood pressure

5.       hook up=以钩钩住

6.       defibrillator=除纤振动器

7.       intensive care=place in the hospital where very ill patients are treated.

8.       critical condition=state where a person is very sick or injured, and has a risk of dying

9.       stabilize=stop a patient from getting worse

10.   intubate=place a plastic tube in a persons mouth to facilitate breathing

11.   flatline=condition where the heart stops working

12.   hamster=鼠类

13.   hold still=stop moving

14.   out of the wood=out of the danger

 

A: Help! Are you a doctor? My poor little Frankie has stopped breathing! Oh my gosh, help me! I tried to perform CPR, but I just don’t know if I could get any air into his lungs! Oh, Frankie.

B: Ellen, get him hooked up to a monitor! Someone page Dr. Howser. Get the patient to hold still, I can’t get a pulse! Okay, he’s on the monitor. His BP is falling! He’s flatlining!

A: NO! Frankie! Nurse! Do something.

B: Someone get her out of here! Get me the defibrillator. Okay, clear! Again! Clear! Come on! Dammit! I am not letting you go! Clear! I’ve got a pulse.

C: Okay, what’s happening?

B: The patient is in acute respiratory failure, I think we’re going to have to intubate!

C: Alright! Tube’s in! Bag him! Someone give him 10 cc’s of adrenaline! Let’s go, people move, move!

A: Doctor, oh, thank god! How is he?

B: We managed to stabilize Frankie, but he’s not out of the woods yet; he’s still in critical condition. We are moving him to intensive care, but…

A: Doctor, just do whatever it takes. I just want my little Frankie to be okay. I couldn’t imagine life without my little hamster!