Dietrich
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He collapses in cardiac arrest.
His fireman put the AED on, shocked him multiple times before I got there.
We were doing chest compressions.
I remember it was yesterday.
He was almost talking to me during chest compressions.
He's in VFib.
We're defibrillating every two minutes.
And he is almost talking to me.
And I was like, holy crap, what's going on?
I was in information overload.
I remember I was a fairly senior paramedic even at that point.
And I was in information overload.
And I was like, do I sedate him?
We are trying to figure out the thought process of if I give him...
verse said, accommodate, um, rock our sucks.
Like, do I just paralyze him and say, sorry, buddy.
I'm like, and we're working through this process.
And I remember a senior supervisor was like, yeah, I think it was just sedating him.
And it was like, he's in cardiac arrest.
Like let's sedate him.