We can have hurricanes flood New York City, aliens attack D.C., Tom Hanks talk with John F. Kennedy, Slim Pickens sail to earth on an atomic bomb, and body parts sliced off with machetes, all in the name of motion picture special effects.
But medical shows like Grey's Anatomy still can't get the heart monitor to go from showing a slowing heart rate down to asystole with a "flatline" (not straight, mind you, but flat) as a patient dies and no cardiac activity can be detected. A monitor that shows question marks is not monitoring anything. It's showing that leads are off.
Argh!!
At least they're not as bad as "Strong Medicine" where they were doing resuscitative measures on a patient by only doing chest compressions. There was no ambu bag, no intubation, no oxygen...nothing in the way of airway and breathing (the A and B in ABC's).
*shaking head*
Maybe I'll take Paul's advice and read a book.
