General Medical issues thread

[prozac]

One ICU stay the phlebotomist stood on the urinary catheter when they went to take bloods!
Edit: And it yanked hard

Was just thinking about this again. Could have been worse, they might have stood on one of my chest drains.

 

[Flyfrequently]

@ellen10 Thank you for the comprehensive update..
Yesterday's outing for Mr ellen10 meeting his mate - and driving too, must have felt like a massive boost for both of you.
Some sense of relief and normality finally coming back in to your lives

 

[Quickstatus]

I have one better.

When I did my anaesthetic term as a RPAH resident, the professor tripped on the breathing circuit and caused the breathing tube to dislodge from the patient who was being kept alive by the ventilator during surgery

 

[prozac]

I have one better.

When I did my anaesthetic term as a RPAH resident, the professor tripped on the breathing circuit and caused the breathing tube to dislodge from the patient who was being kept alive by the ventilator during surgery

Did he just keep walking, pretend nothing had happened?

 

[Quickstatus]

Did he just keep walking?

No had to go to emergency cos he hit his head.

 

[Flyfrequently]

No had to go to emergency cos he hit his head.

Sorry, I shouldn't laugh @Quickstatus

 

[prozac]

No had to go to emergency cos he hit his head.

And you wonder how screen writers develop scenes.

 

[Quickstatus]

Expectant Dads are known to faint while their wife is having an epidural inserted...
We received one when I was working in A&E - he had his head stitched up

 

[kookaburra75]

Expectant Dads are known to faint while their wife is having an epidural inserted...

A collegue of mine fainted when his wife was giving birth naturally. The staff just dragged him across to the corner and proped him up out of the way and went back to the birth. His wife told us, she didn't know to be more worried about her husband or the birth