| A: | Help! Are you a doctor? My poor little Frankie has stopped breathing! Oh my gosh, Help me! I tried to perform CPR, but I just don’t know if I could get any air into his lungs! Oh, Frankie! |
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| B: | Ellen, get him hooked up to a monitor! Someone page Dr. Howser. Get the patient to hold still, I can’t get a pulse! Okay, he’s on the monitor. His BP is falling! He's flatlining! |
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| A: | NOOOOOO! Frankie! Nurse! Do something! |
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| B: | Someone get her out of here! Get me the defibrillator. Okay, clear! Again! Clear! Come on! dammit! I'm not letting you go! Clear! I've got a pulse! |
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| C: | Okay, what’s happening? |
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| B: | The patient is in acute respiratory failure, I think we’re going to have to intubate! |
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| C: | Alright! Tube’s in! Bag him! Someone give him 10 cc's of adrenaline! Let’s go, people move, move! |
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| A: | Doctor, oh, thank god! How is he? |
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| B: | We managed to stabilize Frankie, but he’s not out of the woods yet; he’s still in critical condition. We’re moving him to intensive care, but… |
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| A: | Doctor, just do whatever it takes. I just want my little Frankie to be okay. I couldn’t imagine life without my little hamster! |
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| intensive care | common noun, singular | place in the hospital where very ill patients are treated |
| critical condition | Adjective | state where a person is very sick or injured, and has a risk of dying |
| out of the woods | phrase | out trouble or danger, |
| stabilize | verb | stop a patient from getting worse |
| intubate | verb | place a plastic tube in a persons mouth to facilitate breathing |
| acute respiratory failure | common noun, singular | condition in which a person stops breathing |
| defibrillator | common noun, singular | electric machine that shocks the heart and makes it start working again |
| BP | common noun, singular | blood pressure |
| flatline | verb | condition where the heart stops working |
| pulse | common noun, singular | the number of times your heart beats per minute |
| hold still | phrase | not move |
| hook up | phrase | connect someone or something to a machine |
| CPR | common noun, singular | procedure in which air is blown into another persons lungs though their mouth |