Janette

about 6 years ago

I was the attending RN.....the surgeon amputated the leg of a woman who was crushed by a street car right there in the street....no other way to extricate her...never felt so helpless without all the back up that we would have had in the OR.....all I could think of is this is what it must have felt like in a war zone. ..left the leg behind under the streetcar.....ultimately retrieved though. Pt had crush injuries to the chest and ultimately died a day later. Her face is forever it etched in my memory😢😷