How many names do you have for constipation?

by CEN35
May 9, '02   Views: 12,016   Comments: 42

  1. clogged

    draino killer

    full chute

    nova

    fos

    brown eyes

    no go



    me


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  3. by live4today
    May 9, '02
    Blocked up or backed up.... :chuckle
  4. by canoehead
    May 10, '02
    obstipation- an MD term for the turd that won't come out with just a laxative or enema- have to go in after it to unclog and then flush out with lactulose or GoLytely.
  5. by LilgirlRN
    May 10, '02
    My favorite is FOS, which can often be seen on Xray accompanied by an MIF (Massive internal fart) )
  6. by CEN35
    May 10, '02
    ok lil one, while we are at it....there was a 35 yo female that swore up and down she had a kidney stone. plain film showed she was indeed fos with a huge dilated colon. she insisted she was not fos. she insisted on an ivp or ct to r/o renal calculi. so we did a ct, and the radiologist reading was no "no calculi seen. bowel dilitated at and around the sigmoid, findings consistent with constipation".

    lmao!!! :chuckle

    me
  7. by Sleepyeyes
    May 10, '02
    We see lotsa that in LTC :roll :roll but I was told NEVER EVER EVER

    call "it" an "impaction."

    Why? I asked.

    Apparently the word "impaction" is a Big Red Flag to the State.

    So we call it "digital removal of fecal matter."
  8. by kaycee
    May 10, '02
    I think the best name for constipation in the ER is: LAME!!!!!!
  9. by CEN35
    May 10, '02
    so true kace........

    nice!!!!



    me
  10. by galenight
    May 10, '02
    How bout the name for that constipation that has let loose all over kingdom come? CODE BROWN!
  11. by CEN35
    May 11, '02
    code brown.............i always wondered how many people would get it, if they overheaded that in the hospital.......just like a code blue? lmao!!! :chuckle


    me
  12. by LilgirlRN
    May 11, '02
    Had a lady come in once with abd pain, told me she hadn't been to the bathroom in about 4 days and had taken some mag citrate at home and her tummy was cramping but she still couldn't go. Sh was hurting bad, diaphoretic etc. Doc swore she had a stone, put in an IV gave phenergan and dilaudid, sent her for an IVP, Scout films clearly showed FOS with a huge amount of stool in the ascending colon. She goes to IVP, comes back .."let me out of this bed, I've got to go to the bathroom". She went, pain resolved. No stone on IVP.

    At work last night, I gave Mso4 8 mgsIV push for a bladder infection!:chuckle
  13. by Fgr8Out
    May 11, '02
    Code Brown....

    So, is there a special acls-type course for this Code Brown Team??? AFOS Team maybe? What would be on the Code Brown code cart? Dulcolax? Fleets? An assortment of gloves and colored K-Y??

    "MIF" (Massive Internal Fart).... I LOVE it... gonna use the term from now on, TOO!!

    (had a bad end of shift last night, so i'm really loving all the joviality today... thanks gang!)
  14. by boobaby42
    May 11, '02
    We called up the "backhole digger" for patient's that were "all dobbed up." That would be the number one reason folks would call. The baby ain't dookied all day, you know.

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