What no ER 2/19??

[Scarlett67]

@CrazyCatLady

monstro, they needed a doctor with the baby at all times in case something went wrong. There are so many things that could go wrong (like the baby getting a pneumo) that have to be corrected right then, and it takes so long to get someone down to pressure, that it would be medically negligent to send a patient into a hyperbaric chamber without a doctor. Sure, there was a nurse there, but there are an awful lot of things nurses aren’t trained to do.

Yabbut, isn’t Neela a med student? I’d think a nurse would be able to do more than a med student could.

I agree that Kem and/or the baby are doomed, and I can’t wait. She annoys the ever-lovin’ crap out of me.

I thought I heard someone say something along the lines that the baby’s blood had more hemoglobin in it, and that’s why his blood sucked up all the CO from the mother.

Nice preview for next week with the tank. Overblown much? Let’s see: this season alone we’ve had falling helicopters, fake emergencies (Frank’s “heart attack,” Neela bleeding out her ear), and Army tanks. What’s next, Godzilla? Aliens?

[TeaElle]

@Scarlett67

Nice preview for next week with the tank. Overblown much?

[spoiler]No, not when the tank was stolen by a disgruntled veteran who is out of his skull with anger at County because he’s decided that they’ve failed him in some capacity. He was a tank driver in the war, he knows this is an absolute, unquestionable way to get the attention that he feels that he deserves. He’s looney tunes. Get it?

As for Frank, next week his Krispy Kreme saturated ticker does give out on him, in the drug lockup. I’m just trying to figure out why Frank would be in the drug lockup to begin with.[/spoiler]

[Queen_Tonya]

Sam needs to be smacked for her mishandling of the entire Luka/I have a kid thing. Right, the kid’s like ten and she hasn’t ever had a relationship? You don’t ask your kid for permission to have a life, for pete’s sake! You are the adult, act like it. :rolleyes:

Anyone else find it very odd of Weaver to be buddying up to Elizabeth? Did Carrie forget about all the drama between them when Marc was dying? Elizabeth can’t stand Carrie.

Re: Susan’s Dad…ok, the ‘about time’ comment perplexed me, is it about time she settled down? About time he got a grandchild? What about little Susie, who’s probably a teenager now, were Susan and the druggie sister half-siblings? Other than showing us that Suz’s family sorta sucks, I didn’t get the point of all that.

[MaxTheVool]

I actually have been enjoyin ER quite a bit recently. I thought that Neela’s story this episode was extremely well done.

Of coures, I uncritically adore anything involving Linda Cardellini, so I may not be the most objective of reviewers.

[BiblioCat]

@Queen Tonya

Re: Susan’s Dad…ok, the ‘about time’ comment perplexed me, is it about time she settled down? About time he got a grandchild? What about little Susie, who’s probably a teenager now, were Susan and the druggie sister half-siblings? Other than showing us that Suz’s family sorta sucks, I didn’t get the point of all that.

I think that was more “it’s about time” in reference to Susan’s settling down and starting a family and (possibly) getting married.

Originally posted by Scarlett67:
What’s next, Godzilla? Aliens?

Aw, geez, don’t spoil it for us!

[picunurse]

@Scarlett67

Yabbut, isn’t Neela a med student? I’d think a nurse would be able to do more than a med student could.

I agree that Kem and/or the baby are doomed, and I can’t wait. She annoys the ever-lovin’ crap out of me.

I thought I heard someone say something along the lines that the baby’s blood had more hemoglobin in it, and that’s why his blood sucked up all the CO from the mother.

Nice preview for next week with the tank. Overblown much? Let’s see: this season alone we’ve had falling helicopters, fake emergencies (Frank’s “heart attack,” Neela bleeding out her ear), and Army tanks. What’s next, Godzilla? Aliens?

Been there done that. No doctor. No Studs. Never Never Never. Actually, it depends on how unstable the child is. I can run a code, I can’t put in a chest tube. ( I could, but no one will let me )The hyperbaric chamber does *NOT]/i] force CO out, it forces oxygen into the blood. The red blood cells hold a finite amount of anything. CO has a stronger bond with heme than O2. Raising the barometric pressure, in the presence of 100% oxygen drives O2 into the red blood cells, thus forcing the CO out.
By the way, the chamber they showed is HUGE compared to the one I’ve seen.
Also, it would be a happy coincidence that the chamber was located right there in their facility. They are expensive to build and maintain. They aren’t found in every hospital. In fact, they aren’t even found in every city. They are regional. We have 3 in the Puget Sound area, one is medical, the others are Navy.

[kittenblue]

@picunurse

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Also, it would be a happy coincidence that the chamber was located right there in their facility. They are expensive to build and maintain. They aren’t found in every hospital. In fact, they aren’t even found in every city. They are regional. We have 3 in the Puget Sound area, one is medical, the others are Navy.

Well, that could explain why the hospital is in such bad shape financially, when they have such an expensive (and oversized!) piece of technology to maintain.

And yes, I can’t wait for Kim (hey, that’s how Carter pronounced it, and she annoys me so much I don’t want to spell her name right) to either die, lose the baby, or decide that she can never return to civilization and be Carter’s wife because the people in Africa are much more important to her and require her to sacrifice everything. The episode where she wandered around the hospital butting into everything and never shutting up just solidified my instant dislike for her…she’s not good enough for Carter, and she has this distaste for anything that isn’t impoverished and impossibly noble. It’s as if she didn’t want the staff to use (insert medicine, method, equipment here) on their patients because she didn’t have access to (insert medicine, method, equipment here) in Africa. Can’t wait for her to disappear, even if it breaks Carter’s heart.