What Grossness Is Cool?

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What thing do you think is really cool that every one else thinks is really gross?

I love it when we lance a big sebaceous cyst. I think it is so cool when all of that gunk comes out. Now, I don't want to touch it, I just like to watch. Totally gross huh.

I love watching chest tube placements. When the surgeon digs his fingers into the hole to spread the ribs, then put the chest tube in and ...whoosh! So cool to watch, and for all the pain it causes the pt. is suddenly much more comfortable and able to breathe again. Very cool. And cracking chests - that is something I've only seen once so far but amazing to watch.

I DO NOT do "pudding" urine though...yuk. I try to wait to gag till I'm out of the room.

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I like the blood and open wounds and surgery this is where you learn

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Yall are fantastic! It's nice to see that being a little bent will come in handy in the field.:rotfl:

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

I have always admired clear sputum sucked out of a trach patient who is hopefully gonna be decannulated soon.

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Specializes in Cardiac/Telemetry.

hmmm...i think anything that has to do with pus is pretty nasty. Anything that smells like it's been in the sun too long or inside a not-cooked-egg is pretty nasty.

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Specializes in Neuro, Acute, Geriatrics, Rehab, Oncology.

I am Yvonne B. and I am a picker... OK my secret is out. I love to pop, pick squeeze and drain. I do not know what it is about it, but it is strangely satisfying. I, too love to assist in chest tube drain placement..oh so dang cool! I like to clean navels and clip nails too. Everyone knows I have been on when those two sites have been attended. I think I like it because it looks so horrid when neglected and its something I can quickly do while waiting for whatever.

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I love a good head injury!!!! Lots of blood! Deglovings are cool, Motorcycle wrecks on the freeway.....

Ain't nothin' like a good trauma to get you through the day!!!!

I know; I'm sick. I figure, it's gonna happen anyway, I might as well be there to watch(help, whatever!!)!

Lori EMT I and future RN

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had a kid with an abcess on the post thigh. one little cut, squeezed it like zit for a good 30 sec with pus coming out. couldnt wait to come home and tell the wife.

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I have what it takes to be a nurse...I could read this whole thread while eating a cup of pudding! Only gagged once!~ lol

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Specializes in NICU.

Popper here! But only my own, not other people's. Ew.

I had a preceptor who loved to unclog a PEG tube. She'd mix ginger ale with meat tenderizer and squirt it in, then start suctioning. It was sort of like popping a zit.

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Specializes in NICN.
I love a good head injury!!!! Lots of blood! Deglovings are cool, Motorcycle wrecks on the freeway.....

Ain't nothin' like a good trauma to get you through the day!!!!

I know; I'm sick. I figure, it's gonna happen anyway, I might as well be there to watch(help, whatever!!)!

Lori EMT I and future RN

Sorry to ask this and I will probably kick myself later but, what is a degloving??

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Sorry to ask this and I will probably kick myself later but, what is a degloving??

Minimal to extensive loss of skin with variable amounts of deep tissue loss through defense mechanism or trauma. Yep your right, you don't want to know lol

Pictures of degloving....not for the weak stomached

http://images.google.com/images?q=degloving&hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-45,GGLD:en&sa=N&tab=wi

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