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 Emergency.

After many years in the ER have seen:

Vibrators in several orifaces, Rectums containing soda bottles that had to be surgically removed, elbow pipes that were reported to have been "kicked" into a rectum by an unknown assailant, rectal zucinni, bedposts in rectums; and the best was the poor fellow with the vibrator in his rectum that when removed by the surgical resident caused the patient to have a grand mal seizure!

Now that's some vibrating action!:chuckle

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Specializes in gen icu/ neuro icu/ trauma icu/hdu.
I Have Seen A Lot Working In The Er. Once There Was An Obese Lady That Came In With Oreo Cookies Stuck Under Her Breast, Another Man Had A Mayonaisse Jar Stuck In His Rectum And The Worst Was The Man That Came In For Side Pain And The X Ray Showed That A Gerbal Had Bit And Died On His Kidney

poor gerbal

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What I'm dying to know is-----why did he have it on in the first place? It's not like anyone was going to steal his testicle.

Because the lock and his man parts were there?

I've heard of guys using all kinds of things as **** rings, but a padlock? You're just asking for trouble.

I once saw a picture of a guy with the member pierced through the urethra and tip, and had stuck a padlock in the end. Don't know if he wound up in the ER. :clown:

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On a more family-oriented note, a woman I work with brought her then-preschool age daughter in to the ER after said daughter had confessed to sticking a doll eye up her nose.

It was one of those flat eyes, and the doctor couldn't find it with the scope because it was stuck behind a fold of skin. Eventually, it was located and removed.

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Specializes in Recovery room, ER, ICU.

One guy came to the ER with a Brute bottle up his rectum. The ER doctor told us the next day that he went home and threw out all of his scent bottles!!:lol2:Another man came with a cucumber you know where. He said he stored his cucumbers in the shower, and had slipped while showering. Some people have some weird excuses!!!!

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Specializes in Post Anesthesia.

What I'v always thought of is how ridiculous we sound asking the potato history as if it were a medical "condition" "What were you doing when you first noticed the potato like feeling in your rectum?".... I don't ask. There is only one way for the ...... to get there and that is just TMI for a nursing history.

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Working in the OR, we often get patients with funny stuff: One female patient stuck an eyeliner pencil up her urethra, and must have lost grip on it, we had to remove it for her in theatre!! Then we had a guy who pushed an orange up his rectum, and believe me, to us this was not funny after a 14hour shift!! We also had to do a laparotomy on a male patient who inserted a tin of deodorant into his rectum, we mangaged to remove the tin with a grasper, but the lid would not budge, so laparotomy was the only way of removing it. I actually asked the guy, a father of five, why he did it, and he explained that he was experimenting!! Ya, we sure live in a funny world!! Just when you thought you've seen it all, somebody will amaze you once again!!

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I guess ERs are the same everywhere you go.....lol

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Specializes in Making the Pt laugh..

I was prepping an lder lady for an ECG when she asked me to stop for a moment, she pulled out a roll of cash from under her breast and placed it under the other breast. She told me it was the only way she could have money without her family knowing and trying to bludge of her.

My number 2 son decided to place a lump of chewed up paper up his nose, (he was three and takes after his Mother...not too bright) we couldn't work out why he had sinusitis and very bad breath. The ENT took a look up his nose and told my wife to blow into his mouth, (resusitation style) because the throat will not allow the air to enter his lungs or stomach as he was concious forcing thus blowing his nose. Out popped a gross, rotting lump of paper strait onto my wifes face! The ENT told us that he gets a couple of similar situations each week...just goes to show you that as a species we can be a little stoopid!

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Specializes in Geriatric/Psych.

I couldn't figure out why this ladies call light came on and off; thought there was a short in it. It was the kind with the 'easy' button on the end. Yup, using it as a vibrator. YUCKIE!

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I had a 24 yo female present with that ohh so sweet complaint of thinking she has one tampoon stuck. The doc went digging for it and found over 20!

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Specializes in Home Care, Hospice, OB.
i had a 24 yo female present with that ohh so sweet complaint of thinking she has one tampoon stuck. the doc went digging for it and found over 20!

e-e-e-e-e-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w:barf01:

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