A medical student’s first code. Here’s what he learned.
Well, today it happened. I participated in my first code.
We were in the telemetry unit (the room where they monitor all the patients who have EKG strips) to ask about a different patient of mine only to find that a patient was coding (lost a life-sustaining heartbeat). With some coaxing from my attending, the other student and I wound our way through the around-20 people standing outside and inside of …
A medical student’s first code. Here’s what he learned.
