As we were racing to the recovery room, we heard screams, that increasing got louder and louder, until it almost became almost too loud for our team to bear. We thought something was terribly wrong. Could it be a massive heart attack or a postoperative stroke, or a devastating complication after surgery?
This is a typical daily occurrence across the United States, but today this was our patient. This time it was our patient, a 62-year-old woman who had just arrived in the recovery room. She had just awakened safely after a total hip replacement.
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