Chapter 2
How many times had she seen patients with overdoses? She had lost the count a long time ago, they all were the same, but somehow when Dr Michiru Coby saw her next patient she knew something was different about this girl.
"What do we have?"
She asked as the paramedics wheeled her patient into the ER.
"Female approximately 21 years old. Found in a train unconscious with an overdose. She wasn't breathing when we got there and didn't have a pulse either; we started an IV and shocked her heart once, since then vitals had been normal. But she's starting to pick up a fever" Bran informed the doctor.
"Okay, on my count, 1, 2, 3" As Michiru said 3, she, a nurse and both paramedics moved Serena from one gurney to the other, and as they left Michiru began to help her patient, along with the nurses there with her.
"I want an ice bath ready just in case, blood work and push 5cc of adrenaline. This a cocaine overdose, let's make sure we stabilize her"
Michiru was proud of how well her nurses worked, fast and perfectly. She had chosen every one of them when she was offered the run the ER.
"Give me the vitals" She asked knowing how well her team worked.
"BP is 150 over 100 and going up" one of the nurses answered.
"Pulse is 100 and going up too" a second nurse said.
"What's her temperature?" Michiru knew that was causing the problem.
"105" the first nurse said.
"Okay, let's stripped her, get her a catheter and push 10cc of chlorthalidone, also get 5cc of adrenaline on standby. We have to get her to the ice bath in other to get the fever down or she won't make it"
One of the nurses and Michiru worked fast on getting Serena ready for an ice bath, and just before leaving the ER room they covered her with a blanked.
They moved fast through the hallway to another room where a huge metal bathtub was ready with cold water and ice. Once there, one the nurses moved the IV ole and unhook the heart monitor from Serena's body, while the rest of the nurses and Michiru grabbed Serena and slowly put her down into the water, as she was being lowered into the bath her body began to shiver in response of the different temperatures her body was facing.
"Lets leave her in 10 minutes and then we'll check her temperature. Could you take her blood pressure and pulse?" Michiru asked the nurse who was near Serena's side.
"BP is 120 over 90 and pulse is down to 75"
"Good, lets leave her there another 5 minutes and if her fever is down we'll get her out"
As she finished talking one of the lad techniques entered the room and handle Michiru the results of the blood test. "Thank you" She said as she took the results "Everything seems normal, only that she was indeed with a cocaine overdose. We have to control her vitals and have adrenaline in standby, also once we get her out, we need to keep her temperature under control and avoid dehydration" Michiru had seen way too many overdoses since she became a doctor and she knew how lucky her patient was, she could have died.
After the 5 minutes were done, the nurses checked Serena's vitals again, and Michiru was pleased to know that her patient was doing much better.
"Call the ICU and let them know that we'll be going in 10 minutes to bring the patient. Tell them that she has been stabilized but she needs to be under 24hs care until she wakes up" Michiru got ready to take Serena out of the bathtub "Get the gurney and the monitors ready, on my count 1, 2, 3" when she said 3, Michiru along with the nurses grabbed Serena and carefully mover her from the bathtub to the gurney, they hooked her up to the monitors again and after covering her up with a blacked, they began to take her to the ICU.
Michiru knew that the worse had pass, but her patient still needed time to recover, what she didn't know yet was why she had given herself the overdose, and so Michiru decided that she would visit her once she was awake, and the first thing that she would ask her would be her name.