What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

Specialties Emergency Nursing Q/A

And did you have to treat them?

I am just curious. Your stories always seem to either crack me up or shake my head in amazement.

Thanks for sharing ?

Specializes in ER ( Peds/Adult).

No kidding folks, about 5 years ago, at 3 a.m., had a grown adult female present to triage c/c "chapped lips X 3 weeks". Don't know about the rest of you, but that still holds first prize at our ED for most ridiculous c/c.

Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.
A mother brought her sons in to be evaluated for an ingestion. It seems that there were several ants (later to find out at the most 2) in a donut box. After the boys at their helpings of donuts, the mother noted the ants in the box and "rushed 'em right over." :stone

Needless to say, the dischagrge instructions included to not eat any more foods with ants nearby.

And to remind the mom that ants had more protein than their donuts.

Specializes in Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergy.

Hmmm, I'm surprised no one has mentioned these yet:

Stubbed toe

burning eyes from chopping onions

paper cut

hoorifice voice from too much yelling

canker sore (mouth ulcer)

cellulite

cut while shaving

thumb sucking

toilet training

splinter

Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.

how about coming in by EMS because your tongue turned black

Dx- PeptoBismol Ingestion

Hmmm, I'm surprised no one has mentioned these yet:

canker sore (mouth ulcer)

I don't mean to bust chops, but I'm glad noone has, because I did go to an ER for this. My fiance and I were moving back to TX from CA in Sept and we were rearended on I-80. A couple days later I broke out something fierce in my mouth(I was in St. Louis at this time visiting my mother). I couldn't eat or drink; it was horrible. So since I was 1000s of miles away from my previous primary care physician, I didn't have alot of choice. Waited forever for the PA to incorrectly dx me with herpes, but yet said they were canker sores and said they were one in the same (and from the research I did, they are definitely different). He wanted me to take ultram for the pain, so I redirected his thinking and got some viscous lidocaine.

I hesitate to say this, but I was called up to the ER to do a crisis eval. on a guy who was having marital problems and was concerned about his pending demand for a divorce. He wanted to talk to someone and get some advice. I didn't give much advice, but I did spend some time with him and provided a couple referrals.

Specializes in Med/Surg.
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Specializes in Med/Surg.
The most rediculous thing I have ever seen was a patient who lost a .....sex toy up his rectum. But that was not the funny part, his partner decided to try to get it out with salad tongs the kind with a hinge in the middle. The hinge got caught on the mucosa and he came walking in or with the tongs hanging out of his rectum. :rotfl:

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It's stories like these that make me lose all hope in natrual selection

On Christmas night, when the wait time was approximately 2 1/2 - 3 hours (!) a man came to the ER for a bump on his gum. A bump! No c/o pain, bleeding, etc. Just wanted to know what it was. The really sad thing is he actually waited the 3 hours to have it checked out. Really nice guy though, just a little wierd. :) Maybe he was lonely.

Yeah ! Wonder if he was eating it with a side of Fava beans? :chair:

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Keely

Specializes in home & public health, med-surg, hospice.

okay, i'm gonna tell y'all a story that indirectly happended to me...:imbar

when i was in lvn school (about 12 years ago) i worked as an er clerk, so everybody there knew me, right?

anyway, one night while i'm relieving the switchboard my b/f (later husband) comes into the er w/ "pain in his groin." it's dx. as kidney stone.

but what does he ask the doctor???? "do you think i may have pulled a muscle from having too much sex?" omg!!!!! :uhoh3:

i got picked on so much for that! everybody knew about it too, of course. and you know, even though he did have a kidney stone and all, i still kind of think that was his intention in his question...to let everyone know what was what.

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Specializes in ICU, ER, HH, NICU, now FNP.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! :lol2:

Tell em all yeah it was probably from that - thank god you gave up the bottle of olive oil, the car battery and the duct tape before he really got hurt!

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