tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4723755846699098373.post8001745476335565657..comments2024-03-23T17:49:56.783-07:00Comments on oldfoolrn: When the Human Body Works Like a 3D PrinterOldfoolrnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747485143127099085noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4723755846699098373.post-82527365891101407852019-01-08T18:28:11.026-08:002019-01-08T18:28:11.026-08:00I got caught in one of those ubiquitous side rooms...I got caught in one of those ubiquitous side rooms as a patient once OFRN - suspected of a post-op bleed after major abdominal surgery I was re-admitted post discharge via Emergency to a large private (ie. expensive) hospital here. Having no beds available I was left on a trolley (very uncomfortable when you are in agony) and left in a side room with the call bell having fallen out of reach and the nurse CLOSED THE DOOR behind her as she left me. I couldn't even call out for help from anyone passing by! I was left like that for a couple of hours before a young Resident (junior doctor) came in and I told her to KEEP THE DOOR OPEN and give me the damn call bell! It just confirmed what I always thought about these rooms! Fine if you are ambulant and just recuperating, but few patients like that remain now, as you are booted out pretty much as soon as you wake up from the anaesthetic. Grrr. That's my peeve for the day...<br /><br />That patient does sound gross. I didn't come across anyone quite that weird thankfully... must have been lucky! Sue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4723755846699098373.post-71357113787707667622019-01-07T18:34:01.932-08:002019-01-07T18:34:01.932-08:00Sue, your mention of Nightingale wards brought bac...Sue, your mention of Nightingale wards brought back memories. When the transition to semi-private rooms began, older nurses thought the call bells were one of the worst abominations they had ever witnessed. For them, call bells were a blatant admission that the patient would be left alone without a nurse in the room which was against their training. How times have changed.<br /><br />An ENT surgeon told an interesting tonsillectomy post op tale involving tonsiliths. A patient bitterly complained to him that he was no longer able to produce those little white wrinkly spheroid things when he coughed. He had the habit of pill rolling them between his fingers and inhaling the unusual odor. Since tonsiliths were composed of bacteria and dried up mucous I suspect the smell was quite distinctive, to say the least. Patients have the most unusual habits. <br />Oldfoolrnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01747485143127099085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4723755846699098373.post-61301227401724795932019-01-06T07:57:00.390-08:002019-01-06T07:57:00.390-08:00We would occasionally see the fecal impactions on ...We would occasionally see the fecal impactions on our general surgical service. My fellow first year surgery resident thought he was quite the hot shot and went in and tried to remove the current candidate with his usual full steam ahead non-thought. He was so rough and caused so much bleeding that the 76 y/o man went into septic shock and died. At the children's hospital I had to repeatedly dig out impactions from a 17 y/o teen which resulted from profound hypokalemia from being on amphotericin for over six months for a disseminated fungemia.Joe Kerseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16148358286671792944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4723755846699098373.post-55876804471746552752019-01-04T18:38:58.857-08:002019-01-04T18:38:58.857-08:00As a resident, I once removed a cerumen impaction ...As a resident, I once removed a cerumen impaction that molded to a near perfect facsimile of the external auditory canal. Tonsiliths are also capable of reproducing models of the fissures found with infected tonsils.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4723755846699098373.post-18216172928296211972019-01-04T17:55:41.690-08:002019-01-04T17:55:41.690-08:00Yuk thanks for bringing back some of the less plea...Yuk thanks for bringing back some of the less pleasant memories of nursing days. I remember being taught the manual evacuation of faeces in my first couple of weeks as a nurse in the Preliminary Training School, and all of us going out afterwards praying we'd get through three years' training without having to do this awful job. Once a Sister (RN) you could delegate a lesser mortal to do such tasks). I got through with only having to do it a couple of times thank Heavens. <br /><br />That blood clot is impressive. I do remember a massive haemoptysis where the entire room - walls, ceiling, floors - were covered with blood. I heard a feeble voice call out "Nurse" as I walked by and went into one of those side rooms I hate because I think they're dangerous and found a woman who had covered the room with blood and been unable to hit the call bell. I've never forgotten the sight and the poor woman's terror. Don't get me started again on how much safer those old Nightingale wards were with every patient in clear view! Thanks for an interesting post OFRN. Sue.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4723755846699098373.post-32325386861843965122019-01-03T21:27:31.875-08:002019-01-03T21:27:31.875-08:00Brings back memories... the LOL in NAD who came i...Brings back memories... the LOL in NAD who came into our ER about once a month with a serious impaction... fortunately for me, my fingers were much too large.bobbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14353836074794786357noreply@blogger.com