Patient was intubated and being transferred for extubation on a cart.All four individuals in the room were assisting with a board exam table to cart transfer.While rolling the patient towards myself, the table mattress began to shift with the patient and she began to fall on me.I braced my body up against hers and braced my hip to the exam table and tried to use my body to keep her on the table.Her head and shoulders continued to fall off the table to my left.As she continued to fall, i wrapped both my arms around her legs to stop the fall.At this point, 2 others were also trying to grab onto her.She continued to fall head and shoulders over hips onto the floor.Traumatic extubation, laceration to head requiring sutures, she does have a new right vocal cord paresis.This could be related to her traumatic extubation/re-intubation, or potentially related to her recent sclerotherapy in the region of the recurrent laryngeal nerve.Mattress was attached on two areas with velcro.
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