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I had a pt brought by EMS for altered mental status. ER doc is talking to the pt asking her what meds she takes. Starts listing them off and then says "and something to help with my memory, umm, it's called, umm..". Doc looks at her and says "well it's obviously not working", turns around and walks out
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"Patients current hypervolemic state likely related to a TACO"
It took 4 nurses and some help from Dr. Google to figure this one out. None of us, not even the charge nurse who had worked inpatient for 30 years, had ever heard of this acronym.
I thought it was a typo or the doc was hungry while he wrote his progress notes... nope, turns out he meant "Transfusion associated circulatory overload"
I reported to Doctor, "Doctor, my patient's blood sugar is more than 400 this evening. The patient said "May be, I ate home made noodle too much in lunch today."
Doctor asked me, ''was it tasty?''
I replied, " I guess so but it made her blood sugar higher than ever." ðŸ˜
I once had an anesthesiologist placing an epidural on a heavier woman and the patient was yelling at the doctor to "hurry up" and "what's taking so long"? The doctor was from Africa and one of the most intelligent men I've met. But, he got so disgruntled and he said, "Well my dear, you are as fat as a whale. It is difficult to find landmarks with how fat you are". She responded with, "Yeah? Makes sense". And they were both completely content with each other afterwards. It was one of the oddest moments I've ever been a part of in my career
We told an on call doctor that the house doctor was the only one that the house doctor was the only one that wanted to see a certain patients INR results and dose accordingly and his response was "I don't care she can get into a pissing contest with me later"
After a long night shift, the doctor came in to round on his patients. He walked into the room and stood at the foot of his patients bed and patted his leg and said "you are doing great and look wonderful how about we send you home today?". He turned and walked out of the room and off the floor. I turned to the. It's sitting next to me at the nursing station and said "should we tell him the patient passed last night?". She told me he would figure it out... The patient looked as good as he could dead...
While on rounds, a resident reported the blood gases of his patient on "18% Oxygen." "Well, heck," the attending doc said, "lets bump him up to room air!" ðŸ˜
While working in the ER, the ambulance got called out to an address we knew all too well. She was a frequent flier and basically just used EMS to get seen quicker. Well, we had a full ER and no spare rooms when they called in report and ETA...the ER doc promptly responded with... circle the block a couple times cause we're full... I almost lost it
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"Patients current hypervolemic state likely related to a TACO"
It took 4 nurses and some help from Dr. Google to figure this one out. None of us, not even the charge nurse who had worked inpatient for 30 years, had ever heard of this acronym.
I thought it was a typo or the doc was hungry while he wrote his progress notes... nope, turns out he meant "Transfusion associated circulatory overload"
Afterwards, I just wanted a taco 😂