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<p begin="00:01:20.238" end="00:01:23.453">- What actually goes on<br />in a hostile situation</p>
<p begin="00:01:23.453" end="00:01:26.735">you cannot imagine, unless<br />you're putting that in front.</p>
<p begin="00:01:26.735" end="00:01:28.540">When they're maneuvering,</p>
<p begin="00:01:28.540" end="00:01:29.605">that's where they're getting hurt.</p>
<p begin="00:01:29.605" end="00:01:31.251">The battlefield's very<br />fluid, it's very mobile.</p>
<p begin="00:01:31.251" end="00:01:32.649">You don't go set up somewhere,</p>
<p begin="00:01:32.649" end="00:01:34.091">and then take care of patients.</p>
<p begin="00:01:34.091" end="00:01:35.490">You have to follow divisions.</p>
<p begin="00:01:35.490" end="00:01:37.879">You would get, you know, up to 10, 12, 14.</p>
<p begin="00:01:37.879" end="00:01:40.216">The most we got was 17 casualties at once,</p>
<p begin="00:01:40.216" end="00:01:41.731">I only have two operating tables.</p>
<p begin="00:01:41.731" end="00:01:44.318">So, when I can take a piece of technology</p>
<p begin="00:01:44.318" end="00:01:47.069">that weighs six pounds that<br />I can tuck under my arm,</p>
<p begin="00:01:47.069" end="00:01:48.427">or throw it in the back of my Humvee</p>
<p begin="00:01:48.427" end="00:01:50.115">and not worry about it again,</p>
<p begin="00:01:50.115" end="00:01:52.455">that's something you need.</p>
<p begin="00:01:52.455" end="00:01:54.222">I like the guy who comes<br />in who had a problem,</p>
<p begin="00:01:54.222" end="00:01:55.489">who doesn't have a problem anymore.</p>
<p begin="00:01:55.489" end="00:01:58.673">You've made their lifestyle better.</p>
<p begin="00:01:58.673" end="00:02:00.632">That's worth a million bucks.</p>
<p begin="00:02:00.632" end="00:02:03.382">(acoustic music)</p>
<p begin="00:02:09.279" end="00:02:11.252">- There are definitely, some<br />of the patients come in,</p>
<p begin="00:02:11.252" end="00:02:12.732">that they just really get to you.</p>
<p begin="00:02:12.732" end="00:02:15.979">- So it was, "Merry Christmas,<br />you have breast cancer."</p>
<p begin="00:02:15.979" end="00:02:17.174">- And I get off the phone, I'm like,</p>
<p begin="00:02:17.174" end="00:02:18.655">she just thanked me for telling me, I,</p>
<p begin="00:02:18.655" end="00:02:20.590">for me telling her that she had cancer.</p>
<p begin="00:02:20.590" end="00:02:22.724">- We kidded around,<br />and that's what I need.</p>
<p begin="00:02:22.724" end="00:02:25.357">I need somebody that can say, "Yeah,</p>
<p begin="00:02:25.357" end="00:02:27.577">"you're gonna need a good<br />glass of wine tonight."</p>
<p begin="00:02:27.577" end="00:02:28.974">- If I was not using ultrasound,</p>
<p begin="00:02:28.974" end="00:02:31.068">she came in with her<br />mammograms and ultrasounds,</p>
<p begin="00:02:31.068" end="00:02:32.596">I would look at them on the viewbox,</p>
<p begin="00:02:32.596" end="00:02:33.873">say, "Yeah, there's your tumor."</p>
<p begin="00:02:33.873" end="00:02:35.314">But I can't feel anything,</p>
<p begin="00:02:35.314" end="00:02:38.068">and the radiologist is<br />gonna stick a wire there</p>
<p begin="00:02:38.068" end="00:02:39.694">and we'll know for sure<br />that we got it out.</p>
<p begin="00:02:39.694" end="00:02:44.104">- She just was very sure<br />of what was going on,</p>
<p begin="00:02:44.104" end="00:02:46.081">and what was gonna happen to me.</p>
<p begin="00:02:46.081" end="00:02:48.220">- Now what I can do is<br />scan them in the office.</p>
<p begin="00:02:48.220" end="00:02:49.293">She's here with her husband,</p>
<p begin="00:02:49.293" end="00:02:50.733">they both see the pictures,</p>
<p begin="00:02:50.733" end="00:02:52.132">they look exactly like the pictures</p>
<p begin="00:02:52.132" end="00:02:53.823">that the radiologist took.</p>
<p begin="00:02:53.823" end="00:02:55.881">And they know then that<br />I'm gonna take this</p>
<p begin="00:02:55.881" end="00:02:59.540">to the operating room, and actually remove</p>
<p begin="00:02:59.540" end="00:03:01.106">what needs to be removed.</p>
<p begin="00:03:01.106" end="00:03:02.791">- Milestones are really important to me.</p>
<p begin="00:03:02.791" end="00:03:05.091">Like, let's say we're<br />at doctor's graduation.</p>
<p begin="00:03:05.091" end="00:03:07.241">- I love what I do.</p>
<p begin="00:03:07.241" end="00:03:09.412">This is pretty much my life.</p>
<p begin="00:03:09.412" end="00:03:10.433">- And like we were saying before,</p>
<p begin="00:03:10.433" end="00:03:12.126">I guess I'm really just really thankful</p>
<p begin="00:03:12.126" end="00:03:14.280">I was born in this time,</p>
<p begin="00:03:14.280" end="00:03:16.218">that we have doctors that do what they do</p>
<p begin="00:03:16.218" end="00:03:18.491">and medicine that does what it does.</p>
<p begin="00:03:18.491" end="00:03:21.600">- The fact that I don't have<br />to rely on a radiologist</p>
<p begin="00:03:21.600" end="00:03:23.903">allows me to just do what I need to do,</p>
<p begin="00:03:23.903" end="00:03:28.070">and I think it allows me to<br />take better care of my patients.</p>
<p begin="00:03:30.757" end="00:03:34.924">- It'd just be really<br />grateful that I'm still here.</p>
<p begin="00:03:37.740" end="00:03:40.096">- And that gives me<br />actually a lot of strength</p>
<p begin="00:03:40.096" end="00:03:41.749">and a lot of satisfaction to see</p>
<p begin="00:03:41.749" end="00:03:44.271">what they're able to go through.</p>
<p begin="00:03:44.271" end="00:03:45.745">I'm not sure I could do that.</p>
<p begin="00:03:45.745" end="00:03:48.745">(alternative music)</p>
<p begin="00:03:53.939" end="00:03:56.171">- Sometimes it's overwhelming.</p>
<p begin="00:03:56.171" end="00:03:58.855">Some days we have<br />patients sick everywhere,</p>
<p begin="00:03:58.855" end="00:04:00.554">you have to prioritize who's the sickest.</p>
<p begin="00:04:00.554" end="00:04:02.496">Your way of seeing life is different</p>
<p begin="00:04:02.496" end="00:04:04.476">when you have a<br />30-year-old, 20-year-old guy</p>
<p begin="00:04:04.476" end="00:04:06.293">that dies almost into your hands.</p>
<p begin="00:04:06.293" end="00:04:08.230">You know, when you take your<br />car and you go back home,</p>
<p begin="00:04:08.230" end="00:04:09.880">you don't have the same way of looking at</p>
<p begin="00:04:09.880" end="00:04:12.402">what you're doing or looking<br />at your kids or family.</p>
<p begin="00:04:12.402" end="00:04:14.504">Dealing with patients and their families,</p>
<p begin="00:04:14.504" end="00:04:15.991">you see them happy.</p>
<p begin="00:04:15.991" end="00:04:17.846">You have to pronounce people dead,</p>
<p begin="00:04:17.846" end="00:04:19.292">tell their family.</p>
<p begin="00:04:19.292" end="00:04:22.670">Young people, old people,<br />you have to live with them</p>
<p begin="00:04:22.670" end="00:04:24.602">these moments that are unique.</p>
<p begin="00:04:24.602" end="00:04:27.944">And the arrival of bedside<br />ultrasound in the ICU</p>
<p begin="00:04:27.944" end="00:04:31.077">or any acute care<br />environment is a revolution.</p>
<p begin="00:04:31.077" end="00:04:32.486">But when you're at the bedside,</p>
<p begin="00:04:32.486" end="00:04:34.425">you really wanna have an answer</p>
<p begin="00:04:34.425" end="00:04:35.953">to a specific question,</p>
<p begin="00:04:35.953" end="00:04:39.138">so you need to have<br />something that will help you</p>
<p begin="00:04:39.138" end="00:04:40.336">go a bit further.</p>
<p begin="00:04:40.336" end="00:04:42.941">We image the patient<br />and if we see something,</p>
<p begin="00:04:42.941" end="00:04:43.972">or we don't see it.</p>
<p begin="00:04:43.972" end="00:04:47.639">But when you find it,<br />that's quite a thrill.</p>
<p begin="00:04:48.904" end="00:04:51.297">So, yeah, so this<br />44-year-old guy was in the</p>
<p begin="00:04:51.297" end="00:04:53.824">emergency room, has a big heart attack.</p>
<p begin="00:04:53.824" end="00:04:55.763">He has three other sick vessels,</p>
<p begin="00:04:55.763" end="00:04:58.868">so we send this patient<br />for emergent bypass.</p>
<p begin="00:04:58.868" end="00:05:00.516">He has four of them.</p>
<p begin="00:05:00.516" end="00:05:01.766">He gets better,</p>
<p begin="00:05:02.622" end="00:05:04.342">in the recovery room.</p>
<p begin="00:05:04.342" end="00:05:07.309">He goes to the ICU, he's<br />doing okay initially.</p>
<p begin="00:05:07.309" end="00:05:09.000">And then a few hours after,</p>
<p begin="00:05:09.000" end="00:05:10.899">he started having problems<br />with his breathing.</p>
<p begin="00:05:10.899" end="00:05:13.422">Short of breath, oxygen level going down,</p>
<p begin="00:05:13.422" end="00:05:15.323">down, down, down,</p>
<p begin="00:05:15.323" end="00:05:17.460">so we tried to stabilize him,</p>
<p begin="00:05:17.460" end="00:05:18.867">but we cannot move the patient</p>
<p begin="00:05:18.867" end="00:05:22.286">while they are on this<br />high frequency ventilation.</p>
<p begin="00:05:22.286" end="00:05:25.344">So I did a bedside ultrasound<br />on him, of his heart.</p>
<p begin="00:05:25.344" end="00:05:26.625">- At one point he just said to me,</p>
<p begin="00:05:26.625" end="00:05:29.100">"Has he been on a trip recently?"</p>
<p begin="00:05:29.100" end="00:05:30.717">- So because he has clots in the arteries</p>
<p begin="00:05:30.717" end="00:05:33.600">of his lungs, the blood<br />cannot go there easily,</p>
<p begin="00:05:33.600" end="00:05:35.165">and the oxygen level is low.</p>
<p begin="00:05:35.165" end="00:05:37.446">And the treatment is very different</p>
<p begin="00:05:37.446" end="00:05:39.533">than what we were doing.</p>
<p begin="00:05:39.533" end="00:05:43.369">So we had the suspicion of that<br />with the bedside ultrasound.</p>
<p begin="00:05:43.369" end="00:05:46.101">Sent him for the test,<br />found that he had that,</p>
<p begin="00:05:46.101" end="00:05:48.700">and completely changed his therapeutics.</p>
<p begin="00:05:48.700" end="00:05:52.044">Four or five days after, he<br />was off of the ventilator.</p>
<p begin="00:05:52.044" end="00:05:54.812">He was extubated, talking to us.</p>
<p begin="00:05:54.812" end="00:05:56.729">This guy has five kids,</p>
<p begin="00:05:57.945" end="00:05:59.682">very charming wife.</p>
<p begin="00:05:59.682" end="00:06:01.580">- And that's when I went,<br />just went back to the hospital</p>
<p begin="00:06:01.580" end="00:06:04.136">for a monthly blood test.</p>
<p begin="00:06:04.136" end="00:06:06.695">The nurse said, "You're<br />lucky you have Dr. Beaulieu</p>
<p begin="00:06:06.695" end="00:06:07.598">"as your doctor."</p>
<p begin="00:06:07.598" end="00:06:08.767">I said, "You don't have to tell me that."</p>
<p begin="00:06:08.767" end="00:06:10.748">- When I saw him, two, three<br />weeks ago in my office,</p>
<p begin="00:06:10.748" end="00:06:13.423">he was coming back from<br />Cuba, scuba diving.</p>
<p begin="00:06:13.423" end="00:06:15.811">And I saw him, half-dead.</p>
<p begin="00:06:15.811" end="00:06:18.378">One huge week with this guy<br />and in the outpatient clinic,</p>
<p begin="00:06:18.378" end="00:06:20.890">you're like, that's worth it.</p>
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<p begin="00:06:31.510" end="00:06:33.206">- [Voiceover] We had a 100-year-old guy</p>
<p begin="00:06:33.206" end="00:06:35.312">come in at around midnight last night.</p>
<p begin="00:06:35.312" end="00:06:39.647">He and his wife have<br />been married 77 years.</p>
<p begin="00:06:39.647" end="00:06:41.835">Very pleasant, friendly guy,</p>
<p begin="00:06:41.835" end="00:06:45.186">with a horrible wrist fracture.</p>
<p begin="00:06:45.186" end="00:06:47.302">As an anesthesiologist,<br />immediately when you meet someone,</p>
<p begin="00:06:47.302" end="00:06:50.227">you think, what's the anesthetic<br />I'm gonna do with this guy?</p>
<p begin="00:06:50.227" end="00:06:51.627">As I'm talking to him, I'm thinking,</p>
<p begin="00:06:51.627" end="00:06:53.649">I'm running through<br />the options in my head,</p>
<p begin="00:06:53.649" end="00:06:54.803">the more I thought, you know,</p>
<p begin="00:06:54.803" end="00:06:58.186">I think my best bet here<br />is to give him nothing.</p>
<p begin="00:06:58.186" end="00:07:00.506">And I'm just gonna block the arm.</p>
<p begin="00:07:00.506" end="00:07:02.696">I want him as lucid as possible,</p>
<p begin="00:07:02.696" end="00:07:04.845">and I wanna be able to wake him up.</p>
<p begin="00:07:04.845" end="00:07:05.917">We went into the operating room,</p>
<p begin="00:07:05.917" end="00:07:07.322">and I looked at the guy.</p>
<p begin="00:07:07.322" end="00:07:09.426">Normally I would do an<br />infraclavicular brachial plexus block</p>
<p begin="00:07:09.426" end="00:07:10.909">which goes through all the muscles,</p>
<p begin="00:07:10.909" end="00:07:12.192">you're close to the lung,</p>
<p begin="00:07:12.192" end="00:07:13.675">you're thinking about all those things.</p>
<p begin="00:07:13.675" end="00:07:15.615">And he was kind of slouched in like this.</p>
<p begin="00:07:15.615" end="00:07:16.771">So I thought, okay, this is gonna be</p>
<p begin="00:07:16.771" end="00:07:18.586">a little more technically challenging,</p>
<p begin="00:07:18.586" end="00:07:21.353">and I got him on the<br />table and took a look.</p>
<p begin="00:07:21.353" end="00:07:23.624">And he, amazingly enough and thank God,</p>
<p begin="00:07:23.624" end="00:07:25.933">he had this beautiful<br />artery that I could see,</p>
<p begin="00:07:25.933" end="00:07:27.417">and gorgeous brachial plexis.</p>
<p begin="00:07:27.417" end="00:07:28.988">I could see all the cords.</p>
<p begin="00:07:28.988" end="00:07:32.045">So I could see it just<br />flooding the lateral cord.</p>
<p begin="00:07:32.045" end="00:07:34.237">The posterior cord, and the lateral cord.</p>
<p begin="00:07:34.237" end="00:07:35.433">You know, we did this all on the gurney</p>
<p begin="00:07:35.433" end="00:07:37.583">before we even transferred<br />him over to the OR bed.</p>
<p begin="00:07:37.583" end="00:07:39.523">Cause I asked him preop<br />if he had any pain,</p>
<p begin="00:07:39.523" end="00:07:40.843">and he looked at me and he goes,</p>
<p begin="00:07:40.843" end="00:07:43.448">"Not as long as you don't touch it."</p>
<p begin="00:07:43.448" end="00:07:44.724">And I said, "Okay, don't worry about it.</p>
<p begin="00:07:44.724" end="00:07:45.755">"We're not gonna touch it."</p>
<p begin="00:07:45.755" end="00:07:48.015">So I didn't move him at<br />all, we did the block,</p>
<p begin="00:07:48.015" end="00:07:50.158">I said, "Does it hurt now?"</p>
<p begin="00:07:50.158" end="00:07:51.888">And he looked at me, and<br />the orthopedic surgeon</p>
<p begin="00:07:51.888" end="00:07:53.536">was there too, and I<br />was like, I paid the guy</p>
<p begin="00:07:53.536" end="00:07:55.307">a hundred bucks, and he goes,</p>
<p begin="00:07:55.307" end="00:07:58.242">"No, feels a whole lot better now."</p>
<p begin="00:07:58.242" end="00:07:59.314">And I looked him and I said,</p>
<p begin="00:07:59.314" end="00:08:01.126">"You just made my day!</p>
<p begin="00:08:01.126" end="00:08:02.691">"That was great!"</p>
<p begin="00:08:02.691" end="00:08:05.691">(alternative music)</p>
<p begin="00:08:11.344" end="00:08:13.511">- I see tragedy every day.</p>
<p begin="00:08:14.629" end="00:08:17.023">You could say it's a specialty of tragedy.</p>
<p begin="00:08:17.023" end="00:08:18.915">- People are sort of at death's door.</p>
<p begin="00:08:18.915" end="00:08:21.271">- You've got people yelling and screaming,</p>
<p begin="00:08:21.271" end="00:08:22.446">and in that type of environment,</p>
<p begin="00:08:22.446" end="00:08:26.254">you've gotta tell somebody<br />about your personal history,</p>
<p begin="00:08:26.254" end="00:08:28.149">about personal things<br />that you don't talk about</p>
<p begin="00:08:28.149" end="00:08:30.705">with everybody every day.</p>
<p begin="00:08:30.705" end="00:08:33.432">And to get somebody to talk<br />about those types of things,</p>
<p begin="00:08:33.432" end="00:08:37.071">cause they're very important<br />in treating a patient,</p>
<p begin="00:08:37.071" end="00:08:37.904">is an art.</p>
<p begin="00:08:37.904" end="00:08:40.085">- You see the fabric of society.</p>
<p begin="00:08:40.085" end="00:08:43.097">- And you see people and<br />how we treat each other</p>
<p begin="00:08:43.097" end="00:08:43.930">in real life.</p>
<p begin="00:08:43.930" end="00:08:44.786">- My neighbors always ask me,</p>
<p begin="00:08:44.786" end="00:08:45.619">"Did you see anything cool?"</p>
<p begin="00:08:45.619" end="00:08:46.452">I'm like,</p>
<p begin="00:08:47.479" end="00:08:48.427">"I don't remember.</p>
<p begin="00:08:48.427" end="00:08:50.163">"It was just a blur."</p>
<p begin="00:08:50.163" end="00:08:51.192">- To save that person's life,</p>
<p begin="00:08:51.192" end="00:08:53.215">I don't have time to call the radiologist</p>
<p begin="00:08:53.215" end="00:08:55.485">who's probably at home at<br />4 o'clock in the morning,</p>
<p begin="00:08:55.485" end="00:08:57.751">say, "Can you come and do<br />the ultrasound for me?"</p>
<p begin="00:08:57.751" end="00:08:58.784">- [Chris] If you could<br />look right through the body</p>
<p begin="00:08:58.784" end="00:08:59.653">at the organs you're interested in,</p>
<p begin="00:08:59.653" end="00:09:01.142">why the heck would you not do it?</p>
<p begin="00:09:01.142" end="00:09:04.065">- I'm sure he would really<br />be happy if he could say,</p>
<p begin="00:09:04.065" end="00:09:05.384">"Dr. Saylor, why don't you do that,</p>
<p begin="00:09:05.384" end="00:09:07.243">"and save the patient and let me know</p>
<p begin="00:09:07.243" end="00:09:08.938">"how it turns out in the morning?"</p>
<p begin="00:09:08.938" end="00:09:10.259">- [Chris] There's been a<br />lot of moments like that,</p>
<p begin="00:09:10.259" end="00:09:13.092">with ultrasound where I say, "Wow.</p>
<p begin="00:09:13.941" end="00:09:15.459">"This guy would have died."</p>
<p begin="00:09:15.459" end="00:09:18.520">Or, as a physician you think to yourself,</p>
<p begin="00:09:18.520" end="00:09:20.620">"I almost killed this lady."</p>
<p begin="00:09:20.620" end="00:09:23.508">- But now you've got a<br />patient here tomorrow.</p>
<p begin="00:09:23.508" end="00:09:25.943">Are you gonna be able to save<br />this person's life tomorrow?</p>
<p begin="00:09:25.943" end="00:09:28.671">- Just the other day, I<br />had a tragic drowning case</p>
<p begin="00:09:28.671" end="00:09:29.791">that I was involved with.</p>
<p begin="00:09:29.791" end="00:09:33.958">An 18-month-old that was<br />found at the bottom of a pool,</p>
<p begin="00:09:35.094" end="00:09:39.014">and we were able to<br />get her heartbeat back.</p>
<p begin="00:09:39.014" end="00:09:40.043">The child did die.</p>
<p begin="00:09:40.043" end="00:09:43.224">- I've gotta be just that<br />much better tomorrow.</p>
<p begin="00:09:43.224" end="00:09:45.922">Because something else is<br />coming through that door</p>
<p begin="00:09:45.922" end="00:09:47.149">that I may need it for.</p>
<p begin="00:09:47.149" end="00:09:51.742">- As a specialty, we get it<br />right about 80% of the time.</p>
<p begin="00:09:51.742" end="00:09:53.481">We're sort of 80%-ers.</p>
<p begin="00:09:53.481" end="00:09:56.979">And a lot of people aren't comfortable</p>
<p begin="00:09:56.979" end="00:09:58.594">not getting to 100%.</p>
<p begin="00:09:58.594" end="00:10:00.808">And so that drives some<br />emergency physicians crazy</p>
<p begin="00:10:00.808" end="00:10:01.641">and out of the field.</p>
<p begin="00:10:01.641" end="00:10:04.021">- As a father and with many other people</p>
<p begin="00:10:04.021" end="00:10:06.544">in the resuscitation<br />team that were parents,</p>
<p begin="00:10:06.544" end="00:10:08.853">to see that sort of case,</p>
<p begin="00:10:08.853" end="00:10:10.186">that was pretty,</p>
<p begin="00:10:12.166" end="00:10:14.642">that was a big impact case.</p>
<p begin="00:10:14.642" end="00:10:16.745">- And, at the end of the day,</p>
<p begin="00:10:16.745" end="00:10:17.737">can you sit back and say,</p>
<p begin="00:10:17.737" end="00:10:20.213">"I did everything I<br />could for that person?"</p>
<p begin="00:10:20.213" end="00:10:21.536">- Within minutes, I have to then go back</p>
<p begin="00:10:21.536" end="00:10:22.777">and see a sprained ankle.</p>
<p begin="00:10:22.777" end="00:10:24.929">- Hopefully I have a good outcome.</p>
<p begin="00:10:24.929" end="00:10:26.536">- Hmm.</p>
<p begin="00:10:26.536" end="00:10:28.453">Is it more outer signs?</p>
<p begin="00:10:30.005" end="00:10:32.194">It's a good amount of art.</p>
<p begin="00:10:32.194" end="00:10:34.999">It's a good amount of art.</p>
<p begin="00:10:34.999" end="00:10:37.416">(rock music)</p>