Things you've seen in the O.R that made your teeth crinch?

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The result of an ectopic pregnancy which was a hanful of hair with teeth:eek: So what have you seen?

Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.

I didn't know that teeth could crinch (or even cringe). :p

Anyway, member surgery did it for me. (I don't remember the procedure, but basically the poor man's member was pretty much crooked; the surgery itself resembled peeling a banana then sewing it up...)

And, at a bedside I & D, a chicken bone from a rectal abscess. Yummmy....

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Specializes in CST in general surgery, LDRs, & podiatry.

call-back in the middle of the night, on a weekend (why are these always in the middle of the night on weekends???) some joker :jester: came in through the ed with vague complaints of "abdominal pain." to make a long stupid story shorter - after a brief exam, and some abdominal xrays, he ended up in the or, general anesthetic, in lithotomy, so the surgeon could use empty sponge forceps and a self-retaining retractor to reach into the guy's rectum and remove most of the contents of a can of aerosol "crack filler" (aptly named!) :eek: it's that foamy stuff that you use to fill cracks in woodwork and to insulate gaos and open spaces on the outside of your home. you just spray it into the area, and it expands a lot and takes on the shape of the space it is filling, then gets very hard. :uhoh3:

the one saving grace here was that the guy - at least we assume there was only the one party involved - had managed to jam an empty roman meal bread bag up his behind first, open end to the outside of course, to catch the stuff although it did not keep it from swelling up to max capacity. it took a while to get all that hard foam out of his backside, and then do a quick "bag-ectomy." he stayed on the med-surg unit for 36 hours to be evaluated by not only a gastroenterologist, in addition to the general surgeon who did the original removal, and a mental health care specialist. then he got to go home, and i think he moved out of town shortly after, because nobody ever saw him again! can you imagine running into your surgeon or one of the nurses who took care of you at the grocery store some day? :o not i - i think i'd have to head out of town myself!

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Just today saw a 15lb fibroid tumor removed and a thyroid the size of very large sweet potatoe. I missed the fishing lure from the rectum a few weeks ago though.

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Ive been in the OR for about 23 years and I have seen a lot of crazy stuff!!

1. Vaccum cleaner hose on a member-Explaination: Vaccuming in the nude tripped and hose came apart. LOL

2. 12" butcher knife stuck all the way in the frotal region of a young mans head. Came up from the ER on a gurney laughing and talking, thinking he was Jesus because he lived through the ordeal. Had to have a crani.

3. Large acorn squash in the rectum. Had a big hook on it. Pt had to have a bowel resection and a colostomy.

4. 16 oz. Pepsi bottle in a lady parts. Vaccum formed somehow and would not come out!

5. Pt. that weighed about 900 lbs. with a lg. pannus came in to get a vertical banded gastroplasty (open procedure)-back in the day before Lap Bands and Gastric Bypass. Raised up pannus to begin prep and found rotting chicken sandwich and a million maggots. Had to power irrigate the maggots into a crani head bag before the prep!

I could write a book!!!!

:yeah: NO YOU WIN!!

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Specializes in Operating Room Nursing.

We deroofed a hydatic cyst a few years ago. They are a parasitic tape worm that like to live on organs and they grow quite large, and if they burst patients usually have anaphylaxis. This cyst was quite large it was filled with this thick chunky creamy looking stuff that had these smaller cysts inside it. It didn't stink or anything but the stuff just sticks to everything.

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call-back in the middle of the night, on a weekend (why are these always in the middle of the night on weekends???) some joker :jester: came in through the ed with vague complaints of "abdominal pain." to make a long stupid story shorter - after a brief exam, and some abdominal xrays, he ended up in the or, general anesthetic, in lithotomy, so the surgeon could use empty sponge forceps and a self-retaining retractor to reach into the guy's rectum and remove most of the contents of a can of aerosol "crack filler" (aptly named!) :eek: it's that foamy stuff that you use to fill cracks in woodwork and to insulate gaos and open spaces on the outside of your home. you just spray it into the area, and it expands a lot and takes on the shape of the space it is filling, then gets very hard. :uhoh3:

the one saving grace here was that the guy - at least we assume there was only the one party involved - had managed to jam an empty roman meal bread bag up his behind first, open end to the outside of course, to catch the stuff although it did not keep it from swelling up to max capacity. it took a while to get all that hard foam out of his backside, and then do a quick "bag-ectomy." he stayed on the med-surg unit for 36 hours to be evaluated by not only a gastroenterologist, in addition to the general surgeon who did the original removal, and a mental health care specialist. then he got to go home, and i think he moved out of town shortly after, because nobody ever saw him again! can you imagine running into your surgeon or one of the nurses who took care of you at the grocery store some day? :o not i - i think i'd have to head out of town myself!

that is a hot mess!! smdh!:rolleyes::eek:
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Specializes in FNP, Surgery.

A hamster removed from a male's rectum. He said he "sat on it, and it got stuck up there". Sure, ok. :eek: The hamster did not live. Poor thing.

Found a remote control to the television under a large womans breast when we started prepping. When she woke up after surgery she said she had been looking for the remote for weeks. :confused:

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A hamster removed from a male's rectum. He said he "sat on it, and it got stuck up there". Sure, ok. :eek: The hamster did not live. Poor thing.

Found a remote control to the television under a large womans breast when we started prepping. When she woke up after surgery she said she had been looking for the remote for weeks. :confused:

This made me mad more than anything else..poor little hamster. Do they get animal cruelty people involved in these cases? If not, they should.:mad: Sorry, I have a pet hamster so I'm biased.

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Specializes in Operating Room.

Well I haven't seen this but the crew tomorrow is in for a doozy. One of the gyn guys called with an add-on Suction D&C and requested that they have something there that can crush bone because the girl is pretty far along.:(

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A young woman in for a biopsy. After removing the drape "Enter Here" was seen tattooed above the.....entrance.

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Well I haven't seen this but the crew tomorrow is in for a doozy. One of the gyn guys called with an add-on Suction D&C and requested that they have something there that can crush bone because the girl is pretty far along.:(
Those are awful..my last hospital did suction D&Cs for fetal demise and I saw some pretty grotesque things..thank God, I don't have to do GYN anymore..
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Oooops! I just read my op RE: the "enter here" tattoo and it isn't very clear... Pt was the mother of MANY kids, the biopsy was cervical, and the drape was over the nether region....

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