Phillip was the nursing supervisor on call, and he was there with me the entire night while I had two really sick patients, one in AICU and one on 2A. The one in AICU was a 30-week emergent c-section for placenta previa that was hemorrhaging. She then went to AICU where the two nurses working that night helped me try to stabilize her while she was in hemorrhagic shock. We had 3 peripheral IV lines running since we had to massively resuscitate the patient with volumes of blood products. Those two nurses were amazing during this massive chaos!
During this time, Phillip not only ran to the pharmacy and ran to the blood bank to actually bring the blood products in hand to the AICU so we can continue to resuscitate her, but he also had to triage the entire hospital. Whatever I needed, he was a step ahead of me and if it wasn't something he started to do or called someone about it already he would get it done! Eventually, I brought the patient back to the OR for a hysterectomy.
During this time, my other patient that was in septic shock and 20-weeks pregnant was transferred to the AICU and being stabilized. Phillip periodically came to the OR to ask me questions about what I wanted to do with the patient. When I finally finished in the OR and came back to the AICU to check on my other patient it was a relief to find that she was stabilized as well.
This night could have turned out worse, but I had such a great team that two patients survived. I greatly appreciate their hard work that night and just wanted to acknowledge it.