A little ER stuff
A few things that have popped up recently in the "ole" ER, that were either funny, or pathetic, or just plain silly, and a few sad, and glad........riff
#1...FVO....foreign vaginal object........poor thing had been "playing" with her boyfreind and lost a part of the "toy"....lol....Assured the patient, just because she was 50, didn't mean she was dead, or frigid.....lol
#2..Broken ankle.......Lady was cutting a rug "cumbia's"...(spanish form of waltz) and zigged when she should have zagged...both tib, and fib broken....talk about IYE YI YI
#3...panic attack.."I need a blood test!!!....I might be having a baby at home and need to know if it's ok"......end result...(Dr.) "Maam.....lets see if you are actually pregnant first...then if you are we can discuss the home birth option".....(not pregnant...very drunk)...lol
#4..Ct of head, orbital fx....(broke eye socket)....(teenager)..."Well Doc....you see I was sneaking up on my brother, to scare him right when he was going to swing at the ball, and......(just a small hairline crack.....baaaad black eye..
#5...Broke wrist......"I got drunk and fell off the porch"
#6......FO colon (foreign object) Came in with abdominal pain....x-ray found the source.......a bottle cap.......(no comment)....rofl
#7....."I don't feel good".......Pale cool sweaty, weak........Heart rate 218, Bp 82/34, a little chest pain , shortness of breath.....(This one didnt even get to sign in.....booted a toothache, and started a BIG line, a little adenosine.....BAM.....HR of 72, bp 136/ 73.....(adenosine is a very short lived IV med used to kinda reset the heart if in a bad rhythm....we calls it cardioverting a symptomatic supraventricular tachycardia)......Young mother of two kids got to go home......alive......*yeahhhhh**High fives all around*
#8...."I started my antibiotics 4 hours ago and I'm still sick"........Seen by Md...told "Go home and keep taking your medicine, for your sore throat....just like the Other Dr. Told you, you will be fine.......(untill the ER bill arrives for a few hundred....lol..)
#9...."I got thrown into the huisache bushes by my horse"......broke arm, over 10, 3 inch thorns stuck in his side, ribs....tough ole "buzzard", only took a few tylenol for pain and decided to drive to the ER, cause the thorns smarted a "might".....busted his humerous, mind you...but the thorns was what was hurting (One tuff sumbitch...as my pappy would say)
#10.."I had a fever for three days"...(temp 99.1)....what was it?..."I don't know I don't have a thermometer"....did you take anything for this *fever*....I took tylenol Monday......(it was the following sunday)....Uh Maam that was six days ago.......(discharged......lol)
Just a typical day in the life of the ER....more or less......I hope the moon isn't full this weekend, I got the weekend duty........lol...riff
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A lot of the stuff was seasonal. Not many "near drownings" in the winter. I still cringe when I'm driving around and see somebody with their kid or grandkid in their lap as they ride a lawn tractor and cut the grass. Yep, saw a few of those kids after they fell off and got run over. Not pretty.
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