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[quote=Anonymous]I've posted before on this forum, so I hate to make it seem like there might be more than one that had this experience....but I almost died at Sibley, and I was really shocked at how ill-prepared they were.  I was hemorrhaging rapidly.  They were delayed in giving me the transfusion because there was no "blood warmer" in the OR so one of the doctors went (literally) running to look in other ORs to get one.  They didn't have the right kind of gauze in the OR to pack the wound.  They needed to call for the specialist to do the thing where they put stuff in your arteries to make the blood stop flowing....but the switchboard kept connecting them to the wrong department and when they finally got through to the right person who was on call, it took him hours to come in.  (I was wondering whether he lived out in Loudon County or something.)  This was about 8 years ago, so I really hope that they have improved their situation, but I think they are just not really set up to handle emergency situations.  I think a hospital that gets a lot of trauma would probably have been better prepared.  
That said, I did NOT die, so clearly they did many things right, and the anesthesiologist (who did the running and the calling and generally tried to get people to think clearly and not flip out) was fantastic.  I think part of the reason things turned out well is that I did not go into DIC -- I remember the anesthesiologist calmly telling me that they were testing my clotting factor, and if my clotting factor was okay, that was really great.  If my clotting factor had gone through the toilet with that specialist off God knows where, I don't think I'd be typing this.  They gave me so much blood I joked that I went in for a baby but I got a full oil change thrown in.  [/quote]

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