Severe Sepsis, Emergency Department, Dobbs Ferry Pavilion
An Ambulance took me to St. John’s Riverside Hospital Dobbs Ferry ER immediately. One of the really great things about St. John’s at Dobbs Ferry ER is that there is never a wait.
“Rapid assessment enabled the ER team to provide Ann the care she needed when she needed it most”
Dr. Mark S. Silberman, Chief of Emergency Medicine, Quadruple Board Certified
I grew up 5 blocks from St. John’s Riverside Hospital at Dobbs Ferry. I now live within one block of the hospital in Dobbs Ferry. I had been freelancing at a company in CT when I came home on a Friday evening in November and I work at 3:44am with chills and a fever. I at something small and was up all night. By Sunday evening I had some pizza and ended up vomiting it all back up. Needless to say I could not go to work on Monday and after having asked my husband to take me to see Dr. Fader at St. John’s on Monday I could not even make it down the stairs on my own.
An Ambulance took me to St. John’s Riverside Hospital Dobbs Ferry ER immediately. One of the really great things about St. John’s at Dobbs Ferry ER is that there is never a wait. They had determined almost immediately that I had a UTI, Diabetes (I had never been diagnosed prior), Ecoli and severe sepsis. Dr. Fader dropped by the ER while I was there and the heart monitor said I also had AFib which could have been a result of the sepsis. As we were concerned about having no insurance at the time, the St. John’s staff didn’t skip a beat. It appeared that the blood-based infection that I had damaged organs very rapidly and the night nurses in the ER (confirmed to me by Dr. Fader after I had recovered) made the call that I needed to be shifted to the ICU at St. John’s Riverside Hospital at Andrus.
I spent about 11 days in the ICU where I was cared for with the utmost level of medical care, respect and professionalism from everyone from the cleaning staff and transporters to the doctors. The greatest benefit was that since St. John’s has electronic medical record systems they were immediately able to refer to past visits to the hospital for my “norm” levels. I know in my heart that if it were not for the call the ER nurses at the Dobbs Ferry made, I would not be here today to talk about this.
Thank you St. John’s – You saved my life.