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But I wasnt even scared when it started! I was laying down trying to rest when the breathing and shaking started. I was in the ICU for 5 days.... I dont think it was in my head.

Sorry!! Yes Ambulance driver probably sounds very childish and I will not use that word again. But I did have a good laugh realizing how stupid I sound saying that!! Dwayne the not being able to breathe was definitely not psychological. I know that for a fact. I asked about that later and the doctor told me when your heart is beating so fast as mine was at 225 it makes your heart inefficient at pumping blood. Therefore it makes it hard to breathe when you are not getting adequate amounts of oxygen from an inefficient heart. Sorry if I sound rude... its just the paramedics initially assumed the same thing, that it was a panic attack until they took my temp and heart rate as well as bp. But definitely not in my head!

I got all the info from my medical records. I requested them after the incident just to better figure on what was going on. And I NEVER said I went from no fever to 104.5 in 10 minutes. I never even knew the entire time I had a fever.. I could have had it for hours. I just know I felt bad all day and it then the breathing problems and shaking started which made my husband call 911 and from there it was getting worse quickly. The ambulance driver was the one who told me I had a fever... I knew I felt horrible obviously but didnt know about the fever. And it was Supraventicular Tachycardia, that was the heart rhythm. It was the first and last time I ever had that.

I never said I was at deaths door, I know I wasnt. But I bet by the next morning I may have been. Luckily my heart getting all crazy made my husband call 911, I didnt even realize how sick I was. Sepsis is really serious, but I am sure you know that. My grandpa died from sepsis a few years ago.

No not a student. There was no option for just a visitor. Well take that back at age 16 I took the introductory emt course lol, but since I was so young it didnt even count. I have however been on lots of fire calls with my dad when I was young though. He was a volunteer fire man out in the country and starting at a young age I would go to all kinds of bad car crashes and medical calls. But I am definitely not wanting to file a law suit. The only thing done wrong was not getting there fast but the outcome was good regardless. Besides its been 1.5 years, if I wanted to file one I would not have waited so long.

Not here for any type of law suit, I lived and no permanent damage was done. Basically for closure and to see who would have acted differently. Or to see if the symptoms I presented to seem not too bad and thats why they drove there at a slow speed. So do most medics stay around in the ER and watch the doctor work on the patient? Is that standard or up to the medic?

Well the patient was actually me 1.5 years ago I had been feeling sick pretty much all day but at night it took a turn for the worst. I started having trouble breathing and within 10 minutes I was shaking so hard and gasping for air. My lips were purple. My husband called 911 and we went to the hospital and in the ambulance they said my heart rate was 225 and 104.5 temp. They were having me blow as hard as I could into this thing, and I could not blow at all. I had so little air I could not even blow air out. And they did not even put their flashing ambulance lights on! So at the hospital the nurses hook me to the telemetry monitor and the doctor comes running over and then all hell seemed to break loose. They give me 6 mg adenosine and it fails, 12 mg fails, another 12 mg fails, dialtzen (sp) several times, cardizem many times and eventually there is nothing else to give me so they use electrically cardio vert. Before that I was starting to hallucinate and hearing things that were not there. I end up the the ICU with sepsis and post partum pre eclampsia. There for 5 days on an iv of antibiotics the whole time but I got over it fairly well according to the doctors. Also liver enzymes through the roof and critically low calcium and critically low potassium. Also pancyopenia (sp??) And the ambulance drivers stayed and watched the whole time I was in the ER is that normal? Its like they underestimated how sick I was and then stayed to make sure I would make it I think.

No, not TRALI. No blood products in hospital. BP was 170/110 and breathing 30 breaths per minute. Also not sinus rhythm but PSVT.

Extremely sick looking. Pale and very sweaty and shaking violently and saying she could not breathe but not a seizure.. .Very coherent though. C section due to severe pre elampsia and HELLP syndrome. The fever just started up quickly. She did not even know that she had a fever, it came on very fast. Lungs clear. Wound looks fine and not infected at that site. So you said 2 life threatening problems, what are the 2?

A 28 year old patient, 3 days past an emergency c section. Good health before this episode, in good shape for the most part and no history of medical problems. She was having trouble breathing and gasping for air, shaking hard, heart rate of 225 and a temperature of 104.5. Another medic considered her to be stable but given this information is this a stable patient? I will tell you in a bit what the problem turned out to be.