Event from Call

1:45am: phone rings while on call, "We need you in the ER stat!". This is never good, as our community hospital private practice ER guys manage airways and do a great job. I walk into the room and two ER docs are looking at a chest x-ray. I glance at the x-ray and then the patient. He is a 30-something sitting up in bed diaphoretic and tachypneic. Sats are 98% on 3L NC. I glance at the x-ray as the other docs look at me. Patient has subcutaneous emphysema in his neck and chest.... Event from Call
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