I Was Told Not to Attend My Sister’s Yale Graduation Because I Wasn’t Good Enough Until I Returned as the Speaker

in trauma room one. A second-year resident ordered a paralytic for an emergency intubation on a patient with crush injuries to his lower extremities. I was at my laptop cart documenting the order when I noticed the initial metabolic panel had just resulted. The potassium was 7.2. Crush-injury patients develop severe hyperkalemia from muscle breakdown.continue reading …