AT 2:17 AM in a quiet ICU, a patient recovering from sepsis lay stable on a ventilator.

No alarms sounded and everything appeared under control. However, the nurse on duty noticed a slight drop in oxygen levels, rising heart rate and an uneven chest movement. It wasn’t dramatic, but it wasn’t normal either.

Instead of waiting for the modern machines to alert, she rested on her clinical instinct. Within minutes, the patient’s condition deteriorated and started to decline rapidly-oxygen falling, blood pressure crashing resulted in a gasping state. She suspected a life threatening complication i.e. tension pneumothorax.........

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