Following Protocol Kills a Patient | Trauma | MD TV

A new paramedic learns that sometimes you must follow instinct over protocol when protocol kills his patient.

From Trauma Season 1 Episode 12 'Protocol' - Going by the book costs Glenn a patient as he struggles to rebound from it.

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[fabiodelpiero]

Poor guy was so traumatised he moved to Chicago, changed his name to Kelly Severide and became a kickass firefighter! 😎

[justinchristoph]

You play the odds when you work emergency medicine. You can't know all the facts, but you have to make a decision when seconds count. Sometimes you can do everything right and still lose.

[EvanMurphyCapstone]

I could NEVER do this job! Every day peoples lives are in your hands - immediately, no warning, no chart, no history I cannot imagine how stressful that would be - bless the people who do it!

[ClaudioProductionsX]

this is one of the reasons why doctors and paramedics must always have the best mental health care there is. Dealing with this more than once takes a massive toll.

[mauddescamps]

Porotcols killed my grandpa. My cousin (surgeon) and my dad (GP) told the ER what to do but they insisted that they had procedures to follow. My dad made them promised to do what he said because the protocol was not taking into consideration what my grandpa was (old though man who fell and possibly had a concussion but stayed in the snow for hours). They did not gave him the antibiotics... they checked his head and treated the head injury but he died from a pneumonia which was able to developed because they did not provided the antibiotics...Could have been avoided...
He was brought to the ER, the family were not there when he was brought there (it take us at least 1h30 to get there and even more when it is snowy)

[julians]

We will not blame the paramedic. He has a duty of care to follow protocol. In real life, it will up to the administration board of his paramedic unit to decide what action to take.

[Madnachtmerrie]

I went through about a year of healthcare, but never proceeded further because of things like this. I was extremely excited in the beginning of the year, but by the end I was devastated. Im a person who will remember things I dont want to remember, and will feel guilty of them for the rest of my life. I dont think I could make this job with the lingering thought in the back of my head "I could have-" "If only-" Because of me, someone lost a sibling, a parent, a grandchild, a child. I didn't take healthcare classes after that, or go beyond that.

[BigFella]

My grandmother had a small heart attack two years ago. She was ok, but my family was so scared because she was 96 when it happened. Thankfully the doctors were able to help her before it got worse

[londonm]

the practice of medicine is a lot of science and a little luck. it really sucks, but the reality is that if you work in medicine, you're going to directly cause at least one death and almost cause dozens more because of factors you had no way of knowing about. that's part of why older doctors always seem to lack empathy and bedside manner; they've had to face the families of people they've killed. shutting off emotional responses is just about the only way you can cope with that

[rachaeldraeger]

I would not blame the paramedic. He was just doing what he thought was right. He had no way of knowing.

[everlasting]

Ah MAN!!! What a difficult place to be in. Dude was trying to follow his training and he was doing so well! It’s was just a lack of experience. Nothing to be done.

[MrWooaa]

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life"

Star Trek The Next Generation: Season 2, Episode 21 - Peak Performance

[RuinNationGaming]

the look on her face judging him all the time with out telling him.

[mcnoneya]

Poor guy did everything right and the patient still passed.

[vvdty]

damn.. this is crazy because this probably happens in real life

[blondie]

My mom is a neuro radiologist and my father is cardiothoracic nurse and its horrible seeing their demeanor change when my mom diagnoses something where she knows the person wont survive or will be very limited in life and when my father looses someone in his shift, i cant even imagine what its like KNOWING it was something YOU DID that killed someone

[williamwood]

He handled that a lot better than I did the first time I killed someone.

[Comicsluvr]

It's rare but there are people who are allergic to something and don't know it. Or something happens, like this case, where a one in a thousand thing goes wrong. You can't blame yourself.

[ogichi]

Sometimes you can do every single thing right and still fail. It doesn't make sense, logically. But sometimes that's just the case. In medicine you are limited to the skills and techniques and equipment of modern day. 100 years ago they would probably have just given somebody an aspirin for a broken leg. Now we can treat it so well it'll be like that leg never broke.

[lamda]

Emergency Medicine is a very hard during practicing.
In seconds doctors need to know and ask patient history pain ..etc2 or if he is unconscious good luck with that if you don't have ECG around you.