It may be shameful to confess but I can feel myself actively tense whenever my work phone rings while working in the pediatric ICU. It’s usually the emergency room or an outside hospital calling to tell me about a critical child they have requiring ICU-level support. Anxiety washes over me momentarily. While the feeling is fleeting and soon replaced with a sense of duty, it’s always there.
I opened the door to my attending doctor’s office to let her know. She and another person in her office both looked up at me, then back at each other, and then back to me. It was time to get to work. University Hospital is not new to mass casualty events. We had seen this just five years ago as one of the main trauma centers for the victims of the Sutherland Springs shooting.
“It’s so easy to buy a gun, my husband did it in a grocery store parking lot last month,” one nurse said to another.No matter the comments or attitudes, every team member jumped into action. Moving patients, cleaning rooms, setting up ventilators, collecting medications for resuscitation.I texted the resident covering the evening PICU shift, “I’m sure you heard what happened, we’re going to get you help tonight and call other residents to come in.
I called in another resident to assist Adam in the PICU that night just in case we were wrong. I prayed we were wrong. The mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde robbed 19 children of the opportunity to achieve their potential. It robbed them, and their families, of what would be.
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