ER the TV show

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just wondering, how come nobody talks about the show anymore??

did anybody watch the show last night? i dont pay much attention to the procedures that they do, mostly because i dont understand. haha. but last night i happen to know what they were talking about. they had an alcoholic on the show and i guess he was going through end stages of liver failure and was bleeding all over the place. they put a scope down his throat and stricture the varices, while the pt was trying to talk to the son via speaker phone. i thought that was really ridiculous. they also had to put a blakemore tube to control the bleeding and tied the thing to what looked like an IV pole. it looked very uncomfortable, but is that how its really done in the hospital? sorry i sound like an idiot, i wouldnt know coz im a student.

I just want to work aboard the Star Ship Enterprise with Dr. McCoy.

No body fluids on the staff and those nifty little black scanning boxes. My idea of nursing!!!

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Specializes in private duty/home health, med/surg.
I stopped watching the show years ago...except..LOL! My hubby and I once played this game with friends called ER! It is a drinking game, drink if they put their steths in the wrong way, drink if that foley bag didn't have tubing, drink if they happily take a patient from paramedic (we drank a lot on that one..they were always so cool about it..LOL!)...or any other mistakes we saw..made the show after my favorites left more bearable...then after a while you just don't care...LOL!

:rotfl: Sounds like a great game!

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Specializes in ICU, CCU, Trauma, neuro, Geriatrics.

Accuracy on TV? Add a few 1st and 2nd year residents and just about anything can be what really happens. LOL

I have had to insert a Blakemore in a conscious patient in ICU, it was either that or have him bleed to death. Sedated after though, we used a football helmet to tie the tube to.

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Specializes in Research,Peds,Neuro,Psych,.
I gave it up a LONG time ago when all the good ones left the cast.

Same here..plus it competes with CSI!

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Specializes in Emergency, Critical Care.

Here's another factoid about that tube-

There are actually 3 kinds of varice tubes - one is a Blakemore, one is a Minnesota (I think), and it has like 6 ports on the end. I think that is the one that they used on Liota. The other one has a name that leaves me. Ask me how I know (studying for the CEN exam - argh)

I thoroughly enjoyed last nite's episode. And it is creepily accurate....that lady who started flapping around on the floor to hurry up and get seen....wow, what a window into my world..... :rotfl:

Emmie

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Specializes in LDRP.

i have watched ER faithfully for years, and wont stop now, even though the medical inaccuracies drive me nuts. just last night

-they didnt measure hte NG tube before dropping it.

-they did at least check placement, they just listened....without inserting air into the tube to listen for. so what the heck were they listening for? bowel sounds, lol??

-the doctor inserted and removed the NG tube...not the nurse

oh, and lets not forget the preview for next weeks episode. the nurse does something that kills a patient (they dont say what) but the doctor is the hero for "the baby that noone wants". so the dr is again the hero, and the nurse is just portrayed poorly.

but i still like the emotional parts of ER

love, rose

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I saw the nurse administer the Versed, but the pt never really was sedated. And I was laughing at the way he was talking to his son, and listening so intently to the conversation between the nurse and his son, with a tube in his throat, and Versed on board. Also, the curtain being wide open while the little boy in the next bed watches all the bleeding, rectal exam, personal questions, etc. was a little silly.

However, ignoring all the above, I thoroughly enjoyed the episode. I had stopped watching it faithfully (only once this season, as a matter of fact), but the previews looked good, so I watched, and I thought it was one of the best. It would have been a good one to have been filmed without commercials, like they do sometimes. I thought Ray Liota did a great job. I couldn't help tearing up several times.

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Specializes in Home care, assisted living.

I catch ER from time to time, and caught a few bits of last night's episode (TV reception is crappy and I was getting ready for work). The part where Ray's character is talking to his son on the phone and gets rejected made me sad.

Changing the subject a bit: On another ER episode, one of the residents orders a nurse to give his patient "OBECALP" and then treated her like an idiot when she didn't seem to understand him. Dr. Weaver walked by and reprimanded that resident for prescribing a PLACEBO for his patient (OBECALP is placebo spelled backwards). Anyone remember this episode?

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Specializes in Home care, assisted living.

BTW, I don't tend to watch ER anymore, but do catch it every now and then when I'm bored (that channel is one of two that gets decent reception on my TV).

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Specializes in ICU, step down, dialysis.

Me too Fiona...I want one of those beds that does everything for ya! :D Just put them on the bed, and all your vitals and everything are up on the screen for you! :)

Sherri

I just want to work aboard the Star Ship Enterprise with Dr. McCoy.

No body fluids on the staff and those nifty little black scanning boxes. My idea of nursing!!!

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ER die hard here. I Love my Tivo!Of course it seems like all my studying stops when it comes on.

Will Carter ever find a love that is not too old,too messed up or in the same country?? They are hinting at this new blond girl from psych..

and no..besides school ,kids and hubby I have no life!:rotfl:

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just like you Dixie i like to watch it. even if they show many mistakes that normally nurse would be write up or terminated, i am not talking about md position i am not so oriented in their scope of practice at least yet. i am also student and when i watch it can recognize what is going on, what they talk about, ... last episode i love because they show what we as staff sometimes forget, how people want to die with dignity and at place where at least by the end they can find peace.

i just hated when they were talking about procedure and did not explain it to patient and what mostly scared me and disgust they ignore patient. what the he..., for whom are we there at medical settings as a staff? please, do not ignore or disrespect your patients this way!!! put yourself in their position, how would you feel being in situation like this?

HIPPA. RESPECT. LOVE. CARE.

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