EP 0046Upper-Intermediate
Emergency Room
Help! Are you a doctor? My poor little Frankie has stopped breathing! Oh my gosh, Help me! I tried ’ to perform CPR, but I just don t know if I could get any air into his lungs! Oh, Frankie!
Ellen, get him hooked up to a monitor! Someone page Dr. Howser. Get the patient to hold still, I ’ ’ can t get a pulse! Okay, he s on the monitor. His BP is falling! He’s flatlining!
NOOOOOO! Frankie! Nurse! Do something!
Someone get her out of here! Get me the defibrillator. Okay, clear! Again! Clear! Come on! dammit! I’m not letting you go! Clear! I’ve got a pulse! ’
Okay, what s happening?
The patient is in acute respiratory failure, I think ’ we re going to have to intubate! ’
Alright! Tube s in! Bag him! Someone give him ’ 10 cc’s of adrenaline! Let s go, people move, move!
Doctor, oh, thank god! How is he? ’
We managed to stabilize Frankie, but he s not ’ out of the woods yet; he s still in critical condi- ’ … tion. We re moving him to intensive care, but
Doctor, just do whatever it takes. I just want my ’ little Frankie to be okay. I couldn t imagine life without my little hamster!
核心词汇
intensive carecommon noun, singular
place in the hospital where very ill patients are treated
critical conditionAdjective phrase
state where a person is very sick or injured, and has a risk of dying out trouble or danger,
stabilizeverb
stop a patient from getting worse
intubateverb common noun, singular common noun, singular
place a plastic tube in a persons mouth to facilitate breathing condition in which a person stops breathing electric machine that shocks the heart and makes it start working again
BPcommon noun, singular
blood pressure
flatlineverb
condition where the heart stops working
pulsecommon noun, singular
the number of times your heart beats per minute
hold stillphrase
not move
hook upphrase
connect someone or something to a machine
CPRcommon noun, singular
procedure in which air is blown into another persons lungs though their mouth
拓展词汇
chest com pressionscommon noun, plural
act of pushing on someone’s chest to restart their heart
resuscitateverb
make someone who stopped breathing start breathing again
defibrillatorcommon noun, singular
machine that uses electricity to shock and restart the heart
ERphrase
Emergency Room; place in the hospital where you bring sick or injured people in an emergency
ICUphrase
Intensive Care Unit; place in the hospital where very sick or severely injured people are taken care of