r/emergencymedicine • u/Content-Ninja-2478 • Jan 22 '25

Advice First infant code

Had my first infant code the other day. Home birth that didn’t go well, 39 weeks, Nuchal cord, baby was grey at arrival, continued to work baby for approx 40ish mins, asystole the whole time. A very short moment of silence for babe and No debrief. I feel like the baby deserved more than that. I still feel sick about it. I called my hospitals counseling services and broke down.. I just wish we debriefed as a team, I know it’s busy in the ER and we have to pick up and move on but idk. I don’t even know if baby was boy or girl since it had a diaper on.. that also bothers me. This sucks

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u/BlueCollarMedic Jan 23 '25

is that standard practice? the diaper? putting a diaper on a dead baby just feels.... eerie.

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u/Content-Ninja-2478 Jan 23 '25

Diaper was already on… the baby came with it on.

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u/BlueCollarMedic Jan 23 '25

right. i dont know why i expected anything different. sorry for what you went through OP. 40min is a long code. Sounds like you guys did everything you could.