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backdoorbandits181 karma

Easily one comes to me. An ambulance brings in a pt. They say they found the pt in an abandoned apartment basement on a couch. The the basement was covered with cockroaches, no lights. They must have been down their for so long, their skin fused to the couch. Their legs were so contracted,their feet could touch the back of their head. When the pt first came in, it looked like they had no legs and part of the couch came with them. Their eyes were literally sealed shut with eye gunk and dirt. The pt had an old peg tube site. When trying to assess it. Bugs came out. So the pt had a mental retardation and whoever was their caretaker at some point just left them. This person looked crazy. Almost dead, but made it out of the ER and was admitted.

backdoorbandits53 karma

We have had to take guns off pts when they come in the trauma bay, But if pts come in any other way, they are searched there are metal detectors everything. A story that kind of relates to the story you told... I like to remember when a pt threatened a cop. The pt was in their make shift room. In our ER we don't really have rooms. Well the cop tells the pt if he doesn't sit down and shut up he was going to have use his taser. Pt punches the cop in the face. Cop then uses his taser gun jumps on the pts back uses the taser gun some more and handcuffs him. Pt cried like a baby handcuffed to the bed the rest of his stay. Discharged to jail

backdoorbandits51 karma

we had a young pt go into cardiac arrest in front of out eyes. coded the pt mean cpr and administering life saving drugs. after a minute or two the attending punched or hit, however you want to put it, the pt in the chest, the pt actually like woke up a minute later, and was like " who the fuck punched me in the chest" haha he didn't know he was dead and dying. pericardial thump

backdoorbandits46 karma

hahah depending how nice you are... turkey sandwich and apple juice. (cranberry, wow thats exotic).. but go see you PCP... we tried sry

backdoorbandits45 karma

idk they were breathing and had a heart rate when they left... actually not dead