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A nice medical story..
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Apr. 30th, 2008 | 12:08 am
mood: 
crazy
Long before I was a server admin/webhost guy I was an ER technician.. Only later to find out the administration was a bunch of idiots with paranoid tendencies.. But that's a whole other entry.
I worked the night-shift, my specialty was in cardiac emergencies in the dedicated cardiac emergency dept.. I would though, occasionally float to the "Regular" E.R. if I was needed.. Or if nothing was going on of importance on my side of the building.
It was roughly 4am on a Thursday morning when the EMS radio came alive with MFD paramedics reporting "37 y/o male with foreign object in body cavity. Current vitals are ----, ETA 10 minutes. Anything Further?" The EMT asked.. We could make out a bit of a chuckle in his voice.. This had to be good.. We just weren't prepared for HOW good this would be.
Since things were slow on both sides, myself and a couple nurses went out to the ambulance bay to await the arrival of this dude. Anytime we had free time was good, and gave us time to have a quick smoke (ew, I know.. Gross habit.. but whatever).
As promised, about ten minutes later the MFD ambulance pulls up, calmly backs up into the bay.. And what are we greeted with? Why yes, some dude laying on his stomach with a poor EMT (who was as white as a sheet, and he was a black dude) yelling, "NO!", pleading with this guy not to turn over. What was this? Did the guy have something impaled in his back or something? We soon found out.
After taking said dude into ER room ten, we tx'd him on over to our bed......That's when we got the full, real lowdown on what was going on.
Apparently this guy had one of these ------> click here stuck in his rectum........ Apparently his boyfriend thought it would be "exciting".. Little did he know.. Seems it went in too far, and caused a vacuum which prevented it to be removed digitally. We all understood all too well now why the EMT insisted the patient didn't turn over in the ambulance.. And I was given the wonderful job of taking over said EMT's "Don't turn over" pleadings. Guess this guy didn't realize that if he turned over, crack POP. there goes the light-bulb and many blood vessels in "that" region.
All was fine though. The good Dr. defeated the suction caused by the shiny invader by advancing a 18F foley cath up the dudes butt, inflating the balloon and pulling back.
Instead of sending the bulb to pathology, we gave it back to the guy... Actually, he insisted we give it back......... Let's just hope he's using it properly from now on.
I worked the night-shift, my specialty was in cardiac emergencies in the dedicated cardiac emergency dept.. I would though, occasionally float to the "Regular" E.R. if I was needed.. Or if nothing was going on of importance on my side of the building.
It was roughly 4am on a Thursday morning when the EMS radio came alive with MFD paramedics reporting "37 y/o male with foreign object in body cavity. Current vitals are ----, ETA 10 minutes. Anything Further?" The EMT asked.. We could make out a bit of a chuckle in his voice.. This had to be good.. We just weren't prepared for HOW good this would be.
Since things were slow on both sides, myself and a couple nurses went out to the ambulance bay to await the arrival of this dude. Anytime we had free time was good, and gave us time to have a quick smoke (ew, I know.. Gross habit.. but whatever).
As promised, about ten minutes later the MFD ambulance pulls up, calmly backs up into the bay.. And what are we greeted with? Why yes, some dude laying on his stomach with a poor EMT (who was as white as a sheet, and he was a black dude) yelling, "NO!", pleading with this guy not to turn over. What was this? Did the guy have something impaled in his back or something? We soon found out.
After taking said dude into ER room ten, we tx'd him on over to our bed......That's when we got the full, real lowdown on what was going on.
Apparently this guy had one of these ------> click here stuck in his rectum........ Apparently his boyfriend thought it would be "exciting".. Little did he know.. Seems it went in too far, and caused a vacuum which prevented it to be removed digitally. We all understood all too well now why the EMT insisted the patient didn't turn over in the ambulance.. And I was given the wonderful job of taking over said EMT's "Don't turn over" pleadings. Guess this guy didn't realize that if he turned over, crack POP. there goes the light-bulb and many blood vessels in "that" region.
All was fine though. The good Dr. defeated the suction caused by the shiny invader by advancing a 18F foley cath up the dudes butt, inflating the balloon and pulling back.
Instead of sending the bulb to pathology, we gave it back to the guy... Actually, he insisted we give it back......... Let's just hope he's using it properly from now on.