L is for Levodian Flu pt 2

McCoy had hardl left the Medbay in 2 days, Kirks temperature had spiked and they had been struggling to bring it down to more acceptable levels. So much for his days off he had mused.

He sat by the side of his friends bed, PADD in his hand catching up with his work whilst Kirk lay unconscious. Sweat was dripping off his brow and he had been mumbling in his delirium. Suddenly the monitor above the bed started to beep, McCoy leapt to his feet forgetting the PADD and letting it clatter to the floor.

"Nurse" he called as he scanned his eye over the read outs, Kirks heart rate was becoming tachycardic the beats were well over 100 beats a minute and rising "bring me adenosine"

McCoy grabbed the hypo out of his nurses hand, Kirk had turned grey and his face was wrinkled in pain. Even in his unconsciousness it clearly hurt having his heart beating like a freight train. McCoy pushed the hypo into Kirks neck and turned his attention to the screen awaiting the heartbeat to start returning to normal. he breathed a sign off relief as it dropped 180 bpm, 163 bpm, 120 bpm and so on. McCoy felt himself relax a little until the beeping drew his attention back to the screen, Kirks heart rate had begun climbing again.

"Damnit!" He cursed Suddenly Kirks eyes shot open and he grabbed for his chest, his breaths started to become desperate

"Bones" he cried out. Panic was written over his face, the thumping in his chest making him feel dizzy and sick "what's happening?"

McCoy bent over his friends head, meeting him eye for eye "Jim, your heart has gone into supraventricular tachycardia..."

"English Bones!"

"Your heart is beating too fast. We've tried medication to slow it and it hasn't worked"

Kirk cried out in pain "ok, so what now?"

"Jim, we need to shock your heart."

"What, shock...shock my heart. Like you mean with an electric shock?"

"Exactly, I'll have to sedate you first and then we'll apply a directed shock to the heart to hopefully bring it back into normal rhythm. "

Kirk gasped as he grabbed for his chest again, McCoy knew he couldn't wait any longer. "Just hold on Jim"

His nurse handed him the sedation and he was grateful to be able to put his friend out of the pain even for a moment. Typical Jim Kirk, he couldn't even get the flu simply always had to turn it into a fucking emergency.

With a deep breath and watching the bio bed readings show Kirks heart rate was touching 200 bpm McCoy held the defibrillator over Kirks chest and pressed the button. Kirks body jerked off the bed as the electricity surged through him. The monitor showed a pause in Kirks heart rate before resuming its race,

"Fuck, it didn't work. I'm going to have to shock him again. Nurse stand back" McCoy administered the shock and again Kirks body leapt off the bed. All eyes were back to the monitors, McCoy found himself crossing his fingers. This had to work, and with relief he saw that it had. Kirks heart beat reduced and gradually returned to a steady 60bpm.

"You did it Doctor" the nurse congratulated him, resting a hand on his shoulder as he collapsed back into the chair. McCoy just nodded, he was drained. Looking up to see his friend stirring on the bed he climbed back to his feet, the effort it took just to do that showing how utterly exhausted he was.

"Did it work?" Came the quiet voice

"Yeah Jim, it worked"

"Cool" and with that Kirk's head lulled back to one side and he fell back to sleep.