Herman by Jim Unger for July 01, 2024

He’s dead or your watch has stopped! (Guess which movie that comes from….) :D

Been there done that lost so much blood there was almost no pulse that was a strange feeling

You’re not really exciting him, are you.

“No lie! We need the special emergency ‘Fib-rillator’!“

Easy come easy go.

Thewww……..that was the sound of the point of this comic flying way over my head…..

The nurse should have her right hand on the bed frame, not the guy’s wrist.

And . . . ?

She just can’t find it.

The patient is doing the best he can. He’s NOT dead . . . yet.

Ah, yes. The old “give the nurse the fake hand for the pulse” routine.

I’ve given this some time, but I still don’t get it. Can someone explain?

Something’s not quite right here.

She needs to go back to nursing school.

Put that body bag away, he’s still breathing

Rookie nurse.

A long long time ago, I took First Aid, and I remember being taught that it is difficult/impossible to feel the pulse when the wrist is bent back as shown, you need to bend the wrist forward instead. I wonder if they still say that?

A number of years back I was working and my chores took me to a local hospital ER. One of the patients stuck in a hallway (it was a stinking busy night, so non-urgent patients were oft relegated to hallways to free up cubicle space for sick and injured folks) was being monitored for some kind of cardiac anomaly. He was a firefighter – he still had his uni shirt on, undone to accomodate the monitor leads – so he had a very minimal knowledge of what the squiggly lines on his monitor might have meant, and knew that the flat line currently displayed, along with that loud and urgent beeping sound should be a bad thing…he began hollering for help and then proceeded to attempt CPR on himself, firmly convinced he was dying…until one of the Paramedics pointed out the leads that had fallen off his chest…

Be patient.

Of course not, I’m a cartoon