Soooooooooo I had a TV worthy event at work recently I figured people would enjoy.
Had a patient who came in at 1am with their “Service” dog which happened to be a 100lb pitbull that alerted him to low blood pressure…..
Dog was nice enough and I evaluated the patient came up with a plan and left to place my orders.
Some time passes (20-30 minutes) and I decide to go check on the patient….. he is in the bed…. Had pulled off all the monitors…. And is obviously not breathing very well. 😮💨
FML.
I open the door to go into the room and check on him and this “Service” dog is no longer sweet…
This Pitbul is growling, tail/ears tucked, and bearing its teeth next to its unresponsive owner.
I attempt some verbal stimulation from the door which did nothing but anger the beast more.
Hospital security was not helpful. Called animal control who would not pick up.
Proceeded to attempt to calm the dog and gain entry into the room but the dog would not allow us in.
Proceed to call police at this point who arrive very quickly and they are also unable to tame the dog.
At this point it’s been 20-30 minutes and I’m afraid this guy is going to stop breathing at any moment.
I called the local emergency vet to inquire as to how much Ativan a dog of this size could have. Hoping to put some it in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and pray the dog would eat it.
Bless the kind people at the vet clinic who volunteered to come over and get the dog.
They were able to tranquillize the beast and allow us entry to the patient who had a bottle of oxy in his hand…..
We Narcan him and he proceeded to become very upset that we had to remove his dog like we did.
After all of this drama and giving the hallway patients a show this dude grabs his dog and angrily walked out the door 😑.
Never know what you will see in the ED. Obviously it wasn’t a real service dog.