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Upper-Intermediate - Emergency Room (D0046)

A: 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!

B: 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!

A: NOOOOOO! Frankie! Nurse! Do something!

B: 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!

C: Okay, what’s happening?

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c 2008 Praxis Language Ltd.B: The patient is in acute respiratory failure, I think

we’re going to have to intubate!

C: Alright! Tube’s in! Bag him! Someone give him

10 cc’s of adrenaline! Let’s go, people move,

move!

A: Doctor, oh, thank god! How is he?

B: We managed to stabilize Frankie, but he’s not

out of the woods yet; he’s still in critical condition. We’re moving him to intensive care, but…

A: Doctor, just do whatever it takes. I just want my

little Frankie to be okay. I couldn’t imagine life

without my little hamster!

Key Vocabulary

intensive care common

noun, singular

place in the hospital

where very ill patients

are treated

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c 2008 Praxis Language Ltd.critical condition

Adjective state where a person is

very sick or injured, and

has a risk of dying

phrase out trouble or danger,

stabilize verb stop a patient from getting worse

intubate verb place a plastic tube in a

persons mouth to facilitate breathing

common

noun, singular

condition in which a

person stops breathing

common

noun, singular

electric machine that

shocks the heart and

makes it start working

again

BP common

noun, singular

blood pressure

flatline verb condition where the

heart stops working

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c 2008 Praxis Language Ltd.pulse common

noun, singular

the number of times

your heart beats per

minute

hold still phrase not move

hook up phrase connect someone or

something to a machine

CPR common

noun, singular

procedure in which air

is blown into another

persons lungs though

their mouth

Supplementary Vocabulary

chest compressions

common

noun, plural

act of pushing on someone’s chest to restart

their heart

resuscitate verb make someone who

stopped breathing start

breathing again

defibrillator common

noun, singular

machine that uses electricity to shock and

restart the heart

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c 2008 Praxis Language Ltd.ER phrase Emergency Room;

place in the hospital

where you bring sick

or injured people in an

emergency

ICU phrase Intensive Care Unit;

place in the hospital

where very sick or

severely injured people

are taken care of

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