Emporian Lane Ryno didn’t know that the symptoms he was having on Dec. 4, 2008, were symptoms of a heart attack — but they were, and thanks to the swift actions of a series of people at Newman Regional Health and Emporia’s LifeTeam helicopter program, Ryno was flown to Stormont-Vail in Topeka and his life was saved.
On Wednesday afternoon, Ryno was reunited at Newman with the people who helped save his life to help honor LifeTeam’s five-year anniversary in Emporia, which was marked last month.
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50miles (anonymous) says...
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February 18, 2010 at 4:31 p.m. ( permalink )
50miles (anonymous) says...
Looks to me like the Gazette staff can't handle the truth about the local ER. How funny.
February 19, 2010 at 11:10 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
yev_kassem (anonymous) says...
Not sure what you said 50 miles, but why take a positive article and turn it into something negative. It appears this man's life was saved by the actions of several people. We should be applauding them. We should not be using this as a platform for a different agenda.
Way to go NRH, Emporia's Life Team and Stormont Vail!!
February 19, 2010 at 11:43 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
50miles (anonymous) says...
I said that on December 13 the ER at Newmans was not so quick to react. A 53 year old woman went in with neck and chest pains and was sent home and told it was a cold. Her son found her face down on his bedroom floor about 6 hours later, unresponsive.
I was saying that it was great for this man, but not so great for my family friend. That maybe if they took a woman having chest pain just as serious, 4 grandkids would have their Grandma and 3 kids would have their mother and a lost man would have his other half.
Newmans was quick to respond to my father having a heart attack 10 years ago and he was saved by being sent to KU med center.
Last week another family friends dad came to Newmans ER with chest pain and was sent to Stormont.
My Friends mother was not looked at for heart problems and we are all still very sad and empty because of this.
Is that worth saying something about?
What if it were your mother?
February 19, 2010 at 12:41 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
yev_kassem (anonymous) says...
50 miles--
I am sorry for your (your friends's) loss. It is very sad. I personally don't know the whole situation so I will not pass judgement on anyone.
I would speculate that the hospital has taken this situation very seriously and that they are taking steps to make sure a situation like this does not arise in the future. We all have to realize that these doctors and nurses are humans and that they are not immune from making mistakes. It happens and it is unfortunate but it is also a harsh reality.
Once again, I am sorry for your loss.
February 19, 2010 at 3:04 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
railroadhorn (anonymous) says...
I'm all for saving a life. But it's not right and it's not fair that no cardiologists practice in Emporia. Sure there are a couple of traveling heart doctors but all the work has to be done in Topeka anyway. They can't even read a pacemaker without a trip to Topeka. So if you go into acute heart problems in Emporia, I guess you better have a helicopter nearby. Can you imagine what that costs?!
February 19, 2010 at 4:19 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
neighbor (anonymous) says...
I'm quite sure Ryno's heart repair work was put to the test when he got the bill for that short lay-over in NMCH and flight to a real hospital. (Betting over $30k locally to find out they couldn't do squat for him).
February 19, 2010 at 4:45 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
50miles (anonymous) says...
My dad was to tall and broad to ride in a helecopter to KU med. The bill for the ambulance (which he said would have been better on the back of a flat bed pickup) cost about 10 thousand dollars. 10 years ago.
I am sorry I am not a fan of Emporia's hospital or ER. I myself almost lost a child due to the lack of education about a minor illness that almost took my 13 month old son. I am just not a fan. Sorry.
Not to mention my husband had his hand crushed and the ER doctor tried to reset the bones resulting in surgery that required pins and plates. The Xray from before and after the reset would make you ill.
REDICULOUS! My dad said many times before his death that if he ever needed to go back to a hospital to just take him to the VET!!!!!!!
February 19, 2010 at 5:40 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
yev_kassem (anonymous) says...
NRH is not the Mayo Clinic. You can't expect the best of the best to be working at our little hospital. You have to understand that there are limitations as to what can be done here which is why they transport more serious patients to Topeka, KC or Wichita.
NRH is a community hospital that does it's best to provide care for the majority of the community's health issues. They can not be expected to solve every problem. They need to solve the ones they can and stabilize and transport the ones they can't and I think they do a pretty good job of that. Take it for what it is.
February 20, 2010 at 9:22 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
biscuitboy (anonymous) says...
I agree yev_kassem. There are limits to how much can be expected of a small community hospital. That's why the helicopter does such a land office business.
My complaints with NRH all have to do with their billing department...but that's a story for a different place and time.
I am very happy that a life was saved.....and saddened that another was lost. But you could probably make that statement about virtually any hospital...at any time....at any place.
February 20, 2010 at 10:02 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
susieq (anonymous) says...
The local hospital ER would be a lot better if they hired experienced nursing staff, instead of new nurses directly out of nursing school. The ER is not the place to obtain experience, at the expense of the patient's lives. The director is such a control person that she does not let the staff do their job. That is why no experienced nurses will stay there.
February 23, 2010 at 10:11 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )