What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

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rjflyn, ASN, RN

1,240 Posts

Specializes in Emergency.

"I s--t my pants"

Triage nurses response--" You dont know what a toilet is."

Rj:uhoh21:

bflogrl

40 Posts

It's funny how when we get injured or are sick we hestitate to go to the ER. I cut my forearm this week in a freak accident and only decided to go for treatments when I realized the tendon was exposed. Even then I kept asking myself, "is this an emergency"?

Now why in the world would you even think that it would be silly to go to the ER for that? I had a kidney stone years ago. It was probably the worst pain I ever felt in my life!

ldymeg

10 Posts

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WOW! The stories of those cases transported by 911 are amazing me! Thank Goodness where I live Rescue has polices in place where they can refuse to transport and refer to private ambulance services instead!

ldymeg

10 Posts

Could not agree more! This is especially true in states like mine with extremely high litigation rates. The doc's and hospitals are losing so much money on lawsuits>

ldymeg

10 Posts

This one is sad since the woman we treated honestly did need to be seen but your story reminds me of this woman. She came to the ER I where I used to work with green, odorous vag discharge, temp of 103, and abdominal pain. When obtaining the history, she related that she had recently visited Planned Parenthood and chose the diaphram and jelly for birth control. As I dug further, she was using JELLY with the diaphram. ICU for three days, IV abx for an additional 28.

cursenurse

391 Posts

Specializes in LTC, ER.
This one is sad since the woman we treated honestly did need to be seen but your story reminds me of this woman. She came to the ER I where I used to work with green, odorous vag discharge, temp of 103, and abdominal pain. When obtaining the history, she related that she had recently visited Planned Parenthood and chose the diaphram and jelly for birth control. As I dug further, she was using JELLY with the diaphram. ICU for three days, IV abx for an additional 28.

okay, my total ignorance of birth control other than the pill, patch, or condoms is showing. please explain why jelly and a diaphragm can't be used together.:confused:

ldymeg

10 Posts

okay, my total ignorance of birth control other than the pill, patch, or condoms is showing. please explain why jelly and a diaphragm can't be used together.:confused:

So sorry...my mistake for not being specific. I was referring to contraceptive gel. As I stated in my post, this patient used "jelly", grape flavored to be specific, LOL.

cursenurse

391 Posts

Specializes in LTC, ER.
So sorry...my mistake for not being specific. I was referring to contraceptive gel. As I stated in my post, this patient used "jelly", grape flavored to be specific, LOL.

:uhoh21: grape jelly as a contraceptive? OMG!!

"I s--t my pants"

Triage nurses response--" You dont know what a toilet is."

Rj:uhoh21:

OMG

We had to cut the bra off of a patient once who exclaimed, "no, that's my only bra".

:lol2:

Reborn

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WOW! The stories of those cases transported by 911 are amazing me! Thank Goodness where I live Rescue has polices in place where they can refuse to transport and refer to private ambulance services instead!

I agree too, that this is usually a good thing.

Except when you get a couple of brain surgeons who think they are para-gods like my sis did after she delivered at home COMPLETELY unattended. When 911 arrived they want to separate my sis and niece saying one was a life threatening emergency, but the other wasn't and would have to go by private. :icon_roll

(Can't remember now which was which).

Didn't matter, my sis, God love her, put her foot down.....WENT OFF!!!! Telling them more or less she didn't know what moon they fell off of, but she and baby were going NOWHERE unless together, they transported both...911.

I rarely call 911. I either drive myself or have my SIL drive me. And I can't understand the ER nurses who criticize me for not calling 911. I don't call because it takes me ten minutes to drive to the ER. Caling 911, 2-4 minutes on the phone. 5-10 minutes for the rescue squad to get to my home 10 to 25 minutes spent assessing me, getting a history, medications, starting an IV, starting a nebulizer treatment. Then 10 minutes transporting me. In the meantime my respiratory status is geting worse and worse. I've told my daughter, call 911 only if I am unconscious or you or I can't deal with the problem and transport me in timely maner, to the ER.

I called 911 twice last year. The evening after Charlie hit and nine days later. Both times because of asthma. I wouldn't have called but we were at someone else home. And the second time, I was alone with my three grandchildren.

Sometimes, I think I could sufer more waiting for the rescue squad to arive then driving myself in. So far, I have been proven to be correct in driving myself in.

I suspect I'll be found dead in my bed, not a bad way to go. ;)

Granynurse :balloons:

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