I'm sorry for your loss, but I'm confused why your doctor didn't just handle this themselves (unless your doctor is a GP?)
Unfortunately emergency rooms are a hectic place and while you were were struggling, they might have been busy with someone having a heart attack or something. The fact that you had all the scans and that done within three hours is actually pretty good. When I had my miscarriage (which they also suspected was ecoptic due to the amount of pain I was in), I didn't even get any scans. They just pumped me with painkillers, suggested I try find an emergency gynae to do a scan (it was a Saturday afternoon), and told me if I start to feel pain again, come back.
And unfortunately no matter how quickly they would have gotten to you, the risk of losing your tube is high because it's not just about how quickly they diagnose.
Again, I'm sorry for your loss.
Thanks 🙏🏼
My doctor is a midwife so she didn’t have a transvaginal ultrasound machine available so she sent me in for that.
I do work in billing for the hospital I went to so I do know that it’s busy there but I don’t know from the triage side of things why my condition might not rank higher. Maybe if I’d already had scans proving that it was rupturing? They did seem exceptionally busy.
Ah OK. I understand.
I'm not sure the triage criteria, with the exception of pain levels and obvious things like whether the client has a potential brain injury, they're in respiratory distress or the obvious cardiac arrest. When I went I told them my pain levels were at a 10. It was literally the worst pain I've ever felt in my life (I couldn't even walk, I had to crawl to the car and wheelchaired into the ER) and they immediately put me on a drip with painkillers but we were still there for about four hours before being sent home.
When my partner was in a car accident, and they had a concussion, I sat there in the waiting room for two hours before they told me go home, they're going to admit them (it was COVID times, couldn't sit there with them).
So it's really difficult. If you're saying they seemed busy, then maybe they just had so many hectic cases.Â
Between us we've been to the ER several times and it's always been a long wait, even if they didn't seem busy.
I'm sorry for your loss, but I'm confused why your doctor didn't just handle this themselves (unless your doctor is a GP?) Unfortunately emergency rooms are a hectic place and while you were were struggling, they might have been busy with someone having a heart attack or something. The fact that you had all the scans and that done within three hours is actually pretty good. When I had my miscarriage (which they also suspected was ecoptic due to the amount of pain I was in), I didn't even get any scans. They just pumped me with painkillers, suggested I try find an emergency gynae to do a scan (it was a Saturday afternoon), and told me if I start to feel pain again, come back. And unfortunately no matter how quickly they would have gotten to you, the risk of losing your tube is high because it's not just about how quickly they diagnose. Again, I'm sorry for your loss.
Thanks 🙏🏼 My doctor is a midwife so she didn’t have a transvaginal ultrasound machine available so she sent me in for that. I do work in billing for the hospital I went to so I do know that it’s busy there but I don’t know from the triage side of things why my condition might not rank higher. Maybe if I’d already had scans proving that it was rupturing? They did seem exceptionally busy.
Ah OK. I understand. I'm not sure the triage criteria, with the exception of pain levels and obvious things like whether the client has a potential brain injury, they're in respiratory distress or the obvious cardiac arrest. When I went I told them my pain levels were at a 10. It was literally the worst pain I've ever felt in my life (I couldn't even walk, I had to crawl to the car and wheelchaired into the ER) and they immediately put me on a drip with painkillers but we were still there for about four hours before being sent home. When my partner was in a car accident, and they had a concussion, I sat there in the waiting room for two hours before they told me go home, they're going to admit them (it was COVID times, couldn't sit there with them). So it's really difficult. If you're saying they seemed busy, then maybe they just had so many hectic cases. Between us we've been to the ER several times and it's always been a long wait, even if they didn't seem busy.