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Daily Life - Emergency Room #D0046

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: NOOOOOO! Frankie! Nurse! Do something!

B: Someone get her out of here! Get me the defibrillator. Okay, clear! Again! Clear! Come on! dammit! I’m 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’re 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!

Key Vocabulary

intensive care - place in the hospital where very ill patients are treated

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

out of the woods - out trouble or danger

stabilize - stop a patient from getting worse

intubate - place a plastic tube in a persons mouth to facilitate breathing

acute respiratory failure - condition in which a person stops breathing

defibrillator - electric machine that shocks the heart and makes it start working again

BP - blood pressure

flatline - condition where the heart stops working

pulse - the number of times your heart beats per minute

hold still - not move

hook up - connect someone or something to a machine

CPR - procedure in which air is blown into another persons lungs though their mouth

Supplementary Vocabulary

chest compressions - act of pushing on someone’s chest to restart their heart

resuscitate - make someone who stopped breathing start breathing again

defibrillator - machine that uses electricity to shock and restart the heart

ER - Emergency Room; place in the hospital where you bring sick or injured people in an emergency

ICU - Intensive Care Unit; place in the hospital where very sick or severely injured people are taken care of