Major traumas were brought in first, each team of doctors and nurses waited their turn to take patients from the several incoming ambulances, Carter and Audrey took charge the first ambulance that arrived at the dock. Audrey had changed from hospital gown to the regular green ER scrubs, she seemed a bit nervous but none to less confident. A young girl was pulled out of the ambulance, she was intubated and seemed in a rather pitiful shape. They pulled the girl into the ER as the rest of the staff received many other patients.
"What do we have!"
"12 yr old girl, found unconscious and intubated on site, multiple concussions, possible head trauma and pneumotorax. Pulse is weak."
"We got it"
The girl was in bad shape indeed, she was in the car that had receive part of the sign, her parents were DOA. She had a chance but they had to get her to the OR pretty swiftly.
Carter begins the procedures
"I want a CBC and ACG chest xray and a bag of O neg, we need to perform a lumbar puncture, she definitely has a pneumothorax"
"I'm on it, you try to find where else she's bleeding"
Audrey performs the pneumothorax we can see she's experienced and has done several of these before hand.
"Thorax is cleared, but she is still losing a lot of blood, Dr Carter find anything?"
"It has to be the liver, but there's no entry points" Audrey looks at the chest shot
"It must be glass, its very small, very sharp and invisible on XRAY" She points to a small red scar on the young girl's belly
She uses a scalpel to perform a small incision near the liver, she was right, glass was introduced in the liver.
"Good Catch, now lets make it so she makes it to the OR"
"Oh she'll make it" Just as she finishes preparing the girl Dubenko walks in and takes away the girl.
"Good work Dr Parker."
They continue treating patients, the cases are getting less and less severe and there is now possible hope for an end to all this madness. The ER still looks as chaotic though, but everyone has been diagnosed and given quick but proper treatment. Another day in the ER accomplished. Audrey is sitting in the lounge rubbing her ribs, she's obviously in serious pain. Carter comes in and throws her a bottle of pain killers he had prescribed for her earlier on.
"You did great today, we can not pay you but I can offer you some diner considering no one in this ER has eaten lunch or supper."
Audrey is about to answer when Ray walks in, he quickly throws his white coat into his lockers, grabs his guitar.
"Good Night Dr Carter, I updated Susan on all my patients and im late for my gig with my band" he runs out. Audrey is entranced by him, he looks so young, he looks nothing like a doctor.
"So Audrey Dinner?"
"Err, You sure Abby wont mind?"
"Abby?"Carter is surprised "why would she mind?"
"Arent you guys … involved?"
"No! Were not… well we were but … we… hmm"
"Oh err… Yeh dinner. I'm starving."
They both leave together, Audrey wonders what happened with Carter and Abby, they seemed so close, and she could feel things like that.
(TBC --Comments Welcomed.)