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Specializes in Emergency Medicine.

This woman came to the ER and told me she had centipede.

Centipede???

Yes, she had been admitted to ICU last month for

"centipede".

They changed her regular medicine, sent her to cardiac rehab. Now she had musculoskeletal aches and pains.

After pulling her medical record she had a big MI, cathed, stents placed and

admitted to ICU with what started with her passing out.

With all that was going on she never heard "Heart Attack", Cardiac Cateterization,

Angioplasty or Stents. All she got out of it was SYNCOPE (a.k.a. Centipede)megaroftl.gif

Nursing education FAIL...

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Specializes in Hospice, ER.

Hysterical! Proof that we are not only nurses but detectives too!:rotfl:

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

Reminds me of the mother who said she'd given her daughter the "nipple-lizer." The what? Nipplelizer! What does that look like?? You know, you breathe it in... oh, a nebulizer. Hahahahaha.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
This woman came to the ER and told me she had centipede.

Centipede???

Yes, she had been admitted to ICU last month for

"centipede".

They changed her regular medicine, sent her to cardiac rehab. Now she had musculoskeletal aches and pains.

After pulling her medical record she had a big MI, coated, stents placed and

admitted to ICU with what started with her passing out.

With all that was going on she never heard "Heart Attack", Cardiac Catheterization,

Angioplasty or Stents. All she got out of it was SYNCOPE (a.k.a. Centipede)megaroftl.gif

Nursing education FAIL...

I want you laughing ICON.....:lol2:.

Where I come from that patient had just done fell out......:smokin:

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Specializes in pediatrics, geriatric, developmentally d.

hahahaha love it:lol2: :rotfl:

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She had no clue she had an MI?!? That's so weird!!!

And the centipede is hilarious!! :D

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Wow that is so sad, but tooo funny!

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Specializes in ER.
I want you laughing ICON.....:lol2:.

Where I come from that patient had just done fell out......:smokin:

Esme, we have many with the diagnosis of DFO (done fell out)! It's a very descriptive term and everyone here knows just what happened :)

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DFO's ususally start out as the W&D's ( weak and dizzies ) :)

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Where I come from, you can spot a DFO a mile away. The DFO is the lady wearing house slippers who shows up at the ER with 65 other people when her nephew has been shot or stabbed. Wearing the house slippers out in public means she will be a DFO.

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Specializes in Emergency & Trauma/Adult ICU.
Where I come from, you can spot a DFO a mile away. The DFO is the lady wearing house slippers who shows up at the ER with 65 other people when her nephew has been shot or stabbed. Wearing the house slippers out in public means she will be a DFO.

:yeah: Love this!

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Specializes in Emergency.

We have a considerably large population of folks where English is a second language, so...

From an EMS side:

When dispatch types in "Family says pt has 'chicken breathe'", you can reasonably assume that it's not a case of "rooster halitosis", but instead "she-can't-breathe" was the chief complaint.

Responded to a patient who was brought to the ED earlier for "a sink of pee" (syncope) that hasn't improved. At 3 a.m., it didn't quite click in my head to forego asking the wife questions about the abnormalities of her husband's urine. Muffled snickers from my partner eventually clued me in :idea:. Duh.

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