Gross Question....

When I used to work in the operating room and we would have some really nasty smelling things I would open up an alcohol wipe and take a quick sniff of it. It usually helped remove the offending odor. There is nothing worse than the odor of necrotic tissue.

Well... GI bleeds will hang with you too. During procedure, peppermint altoids, or peppermint oil under nose, or vicks under nose.

After shift:
Breathe outside
Shower, wash hair too,
Put on favorite lotion/hand creme
Got a netti pot...
Vicks vapor rub under nose for an hour or two
Bake cookies fill house with smell
favorite candles fill house with smell

It is the worst smell ever! I think the best thing you can do...in the future when you're dressing that particular wound wear a mask, use vicks under your nose and mouth breathe. That's the only thing that helped me.

Irrigate your sinuses with one of the commercial saline products you can buy otc.

Other things like mints, Vicks etc can help prevent it, but once you get that smell up in their, then irrigation/nasal sprays is the way to go!

One of my nursing instructors many years ago told us to blow our nose after we were done to get all the "smelly molecules" out of the nose, then do the other things suggested if it was still there....

I often get to care for burn patients who can't afford regular debridement. I tell you, the smell haunts me even at sleep!
I would spray cologne to a sheet of 4x8 gauze, line it inside my N95, and wear protective (sterile) gear with cap.
My nose gets immune with the smell within 5 minutes of exposure.
It doesn't bother me much now that I'm so used to those different horrible smells in my area; body odor, smelly feet, colostomy bag content, halitosis, hematochezia/melena, smegma... I can go on and on
I'm gross.

We would always keep Vicks around, and if youu knew it was going to stink, we would rub a bit on the upper lip of every clinician. WORKS WONDERS!

Vicks.

Indeed you are.