Careful with those Crocs

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He was wearing footwear called Crocs when his foot got caught in a Tyson's Galleria Mall escalator."He was standing still; his foot wasn't near this edge," mother Jodi McDermott said. "It was (the left side) of the shoe, so it pulled and twisted the shoe in. It pulled the big toe over and it essentially ripped the toenail off except for one little corner. That's where all the blood was from."

The doctor confirmed the boy's big toenail had been ripped off almost completely. "When we got to the hospital, they said this is actually a common occurrence with Crocs," McDermott said. She said she went online and found other reports of accidents similar to the one that happened to her son.

Ouch :(

This really isn't "nursing news" so I put it in here, but so many are wearing these now... just something to be mindful of.

(older story here: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Consumer/story?id=2530368&page=1 )

I was looking into these but....what exactly is a Croc stop?

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.
I was looking into these but....what exactly is a Croc stop?

When, because of the shape and materials of the shoe, the floor just reaches up and trips you. :D Safety issue.

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Specializes in Ante-Intra-Postpartum, Post Gyne.

Hopefully all the hype will get the folks at Crocs to make some improvements; I love my crocs and have never had any problems; but the ones mentioned sound scary and most seem to stem from the material they are made of, not the design themselves (soft rubbery material could easily get sucked into an escalator; and it does have a stickiness to it that could be causing the croc stop) I am going to have to tell my mom about this, she has osteoporosis and can not afford a fall!!

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Specializes in Triage, Trauma, Ambulatory Care.

We are not allowed to wear crocs where I work because of people tripping in them. However, I wear them at home all the time, especially while doing housework and such. Today I was carrying things in from the car and it had rained some earlier in the day. I was wearing my older pair of crocs that are almost worn smooth on the soles. I slipped and fell down on the cement. The shoes totally lost traction without any warning. Like I had stepped on a banana peel. I bruised up my knee pretty badly. So just a warning if you have a older pair of crocs. Make sure you check the soles and see if they are worn down.

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Specializes in Operating Room.

If the shoe police in hospitals are going to start banning shoes because some people trip, then Danskos should be banned too. Or Nursemates because when I wore them once, I got a horrible blister that got infected.

I am a grown woman and should be able to wear whatever I darn well please on my feet. Blood and other fluids can just as easily go through a running shoe, which many nurses wear. I wear the Crocs without the holes for the most part, but I do wear the traditional ones on occasion. My hospital allows them and even sells them in the gift shop. I think they know they'd have a full scale riot on their hands if they told people they were banned. Also, the union probably would get involved in Shoegate and it would not be pretty.

I never trip in my Crocs( the Specialist model) and my feet are happy at the end of the shift. Crocs forever!!! (I think we need a Croc smiley for this forum!):D

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I LOVE my Crocs! I can't wear tennies at work anymore beause after 8 hours, I have such sore feet, I can hardly move. Even insoles didn't help.... I just hope they don't get banned at my hospital or I'll have to resign

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Yet there are a lot of hospital workers using them. It is true that they are comfortable, but why expose yourself like that? The exposure is not only to injuries but also to coming into contact with body fluids. A few months ago, a nurse and I were working with a patient with a rectal tube, the tube came out and there was brown stuff all over the floor. THe nurse was wearing those crocs with holes on them, and she stepped on it, got it all over her foot, additionally she let go of the tube and it fell on her feet. SHe had to continue working like that.

Where did common sense go? :cry:

I've tripped in my crocs many times, but have never fallen because of it. I have also tripped many times in regular shoes. Hospital floors are trippy! And I'm sorry, but if you choose to wear shoes with holes in the top to work at a hospital and something gross gets on you, that's your fault. But I think the cleanup is way easier with crocs than it would be for regular shoes. That nurse should have taken her socks off and thrown them away, and rinsed the crocs off, then wiped them with those big sanitary wipes thing. And if you have to wear socks, she could have borrowed a pair of the grippy slipper ones that most hospitals have. That's a heck of a lot easier of a cleanup than if that had happened on tennis shoes. As for my crocs, there are not holes on the top or sides of them, and they have a back, so they are higher than clogs. I don't know if they are called specialist or not, but they are in the professional line.

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