Does anybody remember when??............

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nurs4kids

753 Posts

Specializes in Pediatric Rehabilitation.

We STILL have a doc who uses the one bottle chest drainage system. I actually like the one bottle (not much troubleshooting with it..lol). He's old as dirt and needs to retire(72yo surgeon!). All our beds are crank b/c it's peds and ^risk of injury with electric beds, sooooo i KNOW what you guys mean about letting the beds up and down.

fiestynurse

921 Posts

Remember when we use to give Brompton's Cocktails for cancer pain. It contained cocaine, methodone or morphine, and an antinausea med. It came in a big bottle and sat on the med cart. We didn't even lock it up! I swear someone was taking nips off that stuff, because we sure went through it awfully fast! I also remember those stupid specific gravity do-hickeys and metal bedpans! Oh this is fun!!

Hello out there. In the hospital that I work in, we still use crank beds, glass thermometers for pts in isolation, and just a month ago recieved inservice on Pleuravac chest tube system. I did my training in another part of the country, and I remember my instructor saying "You'll never see the glass bottle chest tube bottles" guess she was wrong !

Any other Canadian nurses out there?

Brownms46

1 Article; 2,394 Posts

Specializes in Everything except surgery.
Originally posted by feistynurse:

Remember when we use to give Brompton's Cocktails for cancer pain. It contained cocaine, methodone or morphine, and an antinausea med. It came in a big bottle and sat on the med cart. We didn't even lock it up! I swear someone was taking nips off that stuff, because we sure went through it awfully fast! I also remember those stupid specific gravity do-hickeys and metal bedpans! Oh this is fun!!

BROMPTON's Cocktail..dang you're good! How could I have forgotten that one.. :D! Gee you guys have great memories! And yeah the do-hickeys were stupid...lol...and we did it.. :eek:

Brownie

lpnandloveit1

79 Posts

I thought of a couple more. stainless steal trachs.Had a pt code on a metal bedpan once, I kept yelling she's on the pan and everyone looked at me like she was crazy. She had a beaut of a defib burn on her backside!now I have one does anyone remember the drips into the fat you had to give an injection to the site first. used for rehydration can't rememeber the name of it and everyone thinks I'm crazy.

P_RN, ADN, RN

6,011 Posts

Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

Hypodermoclysis!

I remember my sister had to have that in 1951-52. Tiny child with these huge water filled buttocks!

Mijourney

1,301 Posts

Hi. Anyone remember the days before Lifepak 1? Post cardiac cath patients on 24 hours of bedrest?

prmenrs, RN

4,565 Posts

Specializes in NICU, Infection Control.

The stuff you used before the hypodermoclysis is Wydase--we still use it for IV burns in babies, when we can get it.

lpnandloveit1

79 Posts

thanks both of you! I knew I wasn't nuts.

Jay-Jay, RN

633 Posts

Some doctors still do hypodermoclysis for terminally ill homecare patients, or if someone is dehydrated and has poor veins. I haven't used Wydase yet, but did suggest it for this one patient... And I did my clinical in a very old hospital which still had an automatic bedpan washer, and metal bedpans.

I know there's no one on the board who's been nursing this long, but maybe you had a mother or aunt who nursed during WWII?? I write fiction as a hobby, and am doing a war story, and I've got a few ??'s about meds. When did acetaminophen (Tylenol)come into common use? What did they have for motion/airsickness back then? (This was pre-Gravol, I'm sure!) How was morphine packaged...in glass ampoules, or as tablets that had to be dissolved, as someone mentioned above? Any info will be greatly appreciated!

LoisJean

214 Posts

Here comes another brain fart--I recall mixing mustard (Kraft-only the best will do!) with MOM, applying to decub and then heat lamp. Also, an orthopedic doc who decided decubs on his patients would heal by using human placenta--it would come to our unit frozen and we'd cut off pieces of it, let it thaw then place it in the wound--this must have been in the late '60s...jeez,loueez! :rolleyes:

ornurse2001

60 Posts

I have to say, this is a fun learning experience as well as a fun walk down memory lane! I have never heard of this placenta rub-thing! I do remember M & M and a heat lamp though.I was a N.A.-had to wash that stuff off.I remember more and more stuff everytime I come back to this post.I worked in a nursing home back in the early 80's as a N.A. where the nurses would put the meds on the patients meal trays at breakfast before the trays left the rack and it was the assistants responsibility(or so we were told) to make sure that the residents took their meds with breakfast,Can you believe this was done?!There was also a 5 bed ward in this home that had all NG and G-tube feeders in it and in order to get the feedings done in a timely manner they had a mixture of available nurse's aides, and nurses to each take one and we had to sit there and administer these intermittent tube feedings with a 60cc syringe.I remember the nurses telling me how high to hold the syringe up to make the ensure(or whatever)flow in at the right speed.I can't believe the stuff that went on! This doesn't still happen , does it?!

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