burn-out

few days ago there was a explosion in Tuas and injured many of the workers, the worst injured, badly burned were transfer to our hospital and eventually all admitted to Burn Unit and as usual the whole hospital have to deploy staff to the ward as that ward is usually have a very little staffing as most of time there isn't any patient there....

two was admitted as HD status and four was admitted as ICU status partly due to inhalation burn..... all are foreigner came here to work to support their family far far away from s'pore

despite my own ICU was full and few patients on CVVH and still exchanging non-intubated patients with ICA to create bed for E-case and our ICU still have to deploy 2 RN there to help out in the Burn ICU.....

yesterday, i was selected to go... is not my first time as i did deploy there last year when the NS boys was transfer back from Taiwan to help to start the CVVH for one of the boys..

i was put IC of one of the ICU status patient and he was doing quite good despite almost 50% burned and the inhalation burn was not as serious as the rest of them and by end of my shift was able to extubate him and put him on FM 5L/min and talking in English and asking lot of questions...and i have to keep up with the hourly IV drip and hourly nebulisation for him

the changing of external dressing by the Dressing team really hurt and painful and I really generous with the infusion and boluses of analgesic, making he co-operative with the dressing and log roll

while i was looking after the cervical during log roll and can really felt the his hair are really crispy and dry and of course all the eyebrows are gone....

i don't really like cooking as i find it hot and uncomfortable

seeing him i can just visualise how much pain he went thru as he was finding his way out of the burning place and walk out to look for help

safety at work place is such an important things and lot of time people tend to take fire too lightly and went we take safety for granted and it hurt so much and cost too much too