Strange things found on (or in) a pt.

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I've always wondered, especially after hearing about this guy who brought a snake into the ER----what is the strangest thing you've ever found on (or in) a patient?

Specializes in ER, Psych, Telephone Triage.

The Transporter got high sniffing the Ether. He put the ether on a rag and applied it to the Bums leg and the maggots fall off the skin. Acturally the maggots wre doing a good job shoulda left them to debride the leg wounds and just get reid of the lice.

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Specializes in ER.

I am an ER nurse and i was in triage, a guy came in with extreme rectal pain. a Ct scan revealed he had an eggplant in his rectum.

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I am an ER nurse and i was in triage, a guy came in with extreme rectal pain. a Ct scan revealed he had an eggplant in his rectum.

Did he store his eggplants in the shower, and it got in there because he slipped and fell? :coollook:

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Specializes in ER.

well, he admitted to lubricating the eggplant too much, it slipped up. He had a veggie fetish.:yeah:

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Specializes in Psychiatry.

I work in the OR. We are usually diggin things out of peoples rectums that don't won't come out in the ER. I think the large delicious red apple soaked in alcohol for a way to get drunk was the best so far. Trickiest: waterballon getting it out without popping for fear of damaging the bowel more.

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Amazing how clumsy people can be when they're in the shower-------:smokin::cool:

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

LOL! Yep, right up there with "why do people leave [lubricated?] jelly jars on chairs, only to accidentally sit on them while naked"?

:D

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Specializes in ER/ICU/Flight.

One of the nurses from the endoscopy lab was telling us they were performing a colonoscopy on a lady. After they had given her some Versed and Fentanyl the doctor began to insert the endoscope and the patient yelled "It's too big, Earl....take it out!!"

At which point they looked at her chart and Earl was an emergency contact....and also her husband's brother.

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Specializes in Med/Surg.
how the heck did he even see it?? i can't even see mine when im trying to put them in! that doc has good vision!

It was a contact CASE, not a contact LENS. I don't think the case was too hard to see. :cool:

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An inmate from the local jail arrived complaining of severe abd pain and rectal bleeding into our er. Abdominal xrays were taken. Within minutes of the xrays finishing developing we heard the tech let out a whistle for our ER doc to come running.

Within this pt's rectum......a very defined, very solid white mass. The exact shape, size, make of a .25 caliber handgun!!

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Specializes in Cardiac.

first of all, people are sick and weird. Second of all I think I am more prepared to be a nurse after reading this entire thread. Way more fun and educational than boring old text books lol jk

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10 YO boy w/ two small magnets up his nose that were attached to each other at the septum.

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