Ok, this is EXTREMELY UNCONVENTIONAL QUESTION! I know this is going to leave some nurses gasping thinking, 'Why on earth is he asking this? I know but on Allnurses I have gotten a huge amount of good laughs. The medical field is of such profound depth, and reading stories and learning soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much is just a fraction of what you can do here. You can also laugh yourself into the position where your sides are hurting and you end up gasping for a breath. I mean, come on. A Clinitron bed mattress being punctured, sending those beads flying and lots of other things. What I am going to ask is you to tell me your strange specialty bed stories. I would like this thread to be pages and pages and
Pages long. If you have had a strange bed story. Examples might be your experience with Clinitron beds gone wrong, TotalCare bed hoses coming disconnected during a Patient Percussion And Vibration treatment, or something really strange like that. This could involve the Critical care beds with the air mattress, the RotoProne bed, The RotoRest Bed, the Clinitron bed, The Triadyne bed, etc. I've often wondered what would be the result of a disconnection of One of the hoses of a TotalCare bed hoses during Continuous Lateral Rotation Therapy or Percussion And Vibration treatment Or if you have had a popping air mattress when you it the bed in Max Inflate Mode. I've heard a couple of strange stories on here already. Not to mention any names. I am going to list what I know so far. A rather painful story is a nurse accidentally has her foot under the Clinitron bed. I'm glad she was all right. I'm sure that HAD TO HURT! Next story is a Clinitron bed bed air mattress being punctured accidental sending beads floating ALL OVER, sending people sliding and not that this is funny, but rather interesting. Another rather strange story was a patient who had died on the Clinitron bed and after the bed had been turned off, it was turned back on so that the family could visit the Patient and the bed inflating in sections causing the Patient to sit up rather, when the family arrived. Another story including liquid stool making s strange sound and rather boiling from the Clinitron bed. I consider this rather interesting. Specialty beds are so interesting, and I'm sure can make numerous strange and at times funny stories to hear/Read. On another forum on another website, there is a post entitled 'Why RotoProne bed sucks,' or something like that a nurse is venting about the high tech RotoProne bed that malfunctioned whilst the Patient was in the PRONE POSITION, thus causing them to have to CUT THE Patient OUT PRONE. WOW, In thinking, these specialty beds are truly prone to strange and funny stories. A nurse falling into the Beads of a Clinitron bed could be funny if a Patient was not injured m. Thank you and all at Allnurses for your greatness.
From going through the OP's post history...maybe he was a severe electrical burn victim and is trying to piece things together. It would explain the obsession with specialty beds (I swear our big burns obsessively hated their specialty beds), the NEC and bowel questions, the experience being paralyzed...?
I'm with you dhg on the strange nature of OP's posts. I read through them too and additionally noticed a couple of weirdly inserted words, like Air Mattress and Intramuscular that make absolutely no sense. Also seems very proud of himself to be asking "unconventional" questions. Wants to know how to program an IV pump Simulator for Propofol or Vecuronium??
Posts from 2012 then nothing now a bunch of weird topics that haven't generated much response.
Someone on a Psych Unit writing a hospital murder mystery?
Some mad scientist keeping women paralyzed to be sex slaves??
There are a couple of new accounts here on AN that make my spidey senses spring into action whenever I see a new thread started by them. ECMO is certainly one of those.
There are a couple of new accounts here on AN that make my spidey senses spring into action whenever I see a new thread started by them. ECMO is certainly one of those.
Something stinks....
I do agree that we seem to have a run on "odd" topics to say the least.
I had a regular hospital bed break in such a way that the head and foot of the bed dropped, and the middle (which was a steel plate with a hinge for the head to raise) popped up. The bed looked like an upside down V with a patient on top. Luckily, A) the patient was fine, and found it hilarious, and B) was not my patient, so I didn't have to explain anything to anyone.
Mavrick, BSN, RN
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I'm with you dhg on the strange nature of OP's posts. I read through them too and additionally noticed a couple of weirdly inserted words, like Air Mattress and Intramuscular that make absolutely no sense. Also seems very proud of himself to be asking "unconventional" questions. Wants to know how to program an IV pump Simulator for Propofol or Vecuronium??
Posts from 2012 then nothing now a bunch of weird topics that haven't generated much response.
Someone on a Psych Unit writing a hospital murder mystery?
Some mad scientist keeping women paralyzed to be sex slaves??