When my pizza craving kind of saved a life!

Hey people,

No heroic act done. A coincidence where pizza is in the picture.

One fine evening at the airport, I had this pizza craving. I could neither study or sleep . So I thought I'll stuff some pizza and that can help me nap. I strolled up to the food court. I was randomly screening menu of a restaurant I had never visited . In the field of vision came
48 year old unresponsive patient. He was sweating. His family was around him. They had spilled water on his face.

I walked up to him spoke to him to check his orientation ( GCS) . When I was assured his GCS was fine . I asked for history. I got to know that he was diabetic , had similar episodes in the past. Meanwhile his daughter rushed to get some sugar solution . While he consumed it , I tried contacting my emergency room. And toodles! My network was not working. To buy time I ran around to see wheelchairs near the food court but unfortunately there was none. The staff was hardly of any help.

I rushed back to assess the GCS . He was feeling better and wanted to go home. I insisted that he came to Airport medical center to get his vitals checked. They were not aware that a hospital set up existed at the airport.

So I then got him shifted to the airport medical centre.His vitals were fine. We took a ECG that showed q waves in the inferior leads. His wife calmly said , madam he faints like this once a year.
So , did you get the evaluation done ?
No. She said.

They didn't know about family history much. I forgot to ask them about history of sudden death in family without a known cause to rule out brugada syndrome.

The patient had come to see of his son , who was going to study medicine abroad.

I advised admission and further investigations, repeat ECG and sugars. They had affordability issues so they chose to go to a nearby hospital and get a work up done.

I don't know if they did. But yes , the thing I can assure is they got sensitised about the seriousness of the situation.

So far so much
Bye!

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