We had Transport People to help guide us around our massive hospital. Most of those people were awesome, and I have few complaints.
Anyhow, I took this one ventilated Patient to the Brain Scan Department. (Whatever they call it.)He was a relatively young man, 30s perhaps. So I did my stuff and the guy was scanned.
After a while, I was summoned to bring him back to the ICU, and I did so. .
A few minutes later I signed on to the work computer to register my report. I saw that the Patient was declared dead. I did not even have time to report my work. They officially declared the Patient dead while we were in the elevator. He was freaking dead and I was involved with carting him around the hospital. This was completely unsettling.
It was nearing Christmas time. I was so upset at the time.
I walked by the Unit Conference Room. I heard screaming from the inside. I was almost paralyzed. Nobody normal expected that guy to be dead. I do not even recall why he was there. I feel shitty about that.
I was simply stunned by all of it, and his family went absolutely nutty.
Did the brain scan kill him or were you pushing around a corpse the whole time? I suppose the third option is that he was brain dead but being kept “alive” by the ventilator in order to perform procedures useless to him, but that the hospital would be reimbursed for. How awful for the patient, you, and his family.