Works Bomb???

Straydandelion · May 12, 2009

Not in ER specialty but just posting this because I was amazed.. I googled to see what it was and saw all these video's of "how to"!!

http://www.google.com/search?q=Works+bomb&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Editorial Team / Moderator · May 12, 2009

No, but we did have a potato gun = burned face kid recently. Good grief. He got his instructions online, too. Brilliant!

Displaced · May 13, 2009

We have had a couple, with serious injuries, in the last couple weeks.

**canoehead, BSN, RN** · May 18, 2009

I watched the video, and it's amazing what people will do for fun when they have nothing else better going on.

Works bomb injuries now coming with a standard nursey lecture in my ER.

2BSure · May 22, 2009

Their mothers must be so proud.

RLPORTEE · May 22, 2009

I am currently getting ready to start school for nursing and I know I'm set on either OB/GYN or ER. Hearing this I just think that is crazy. I wonder is there any need to tell them how stupid that was or even if there is a need to explain not to do it again. Kids these time of days. I was more scared of what my parents would have done to me than I was of what a bomb may do.

mwboswell · May 23, 2009

Well, it's ON now - I just saw the video and guess what I'm gonna "try" next weekend out on my buddy's "south 40" of his rural property!!!! -that's in addition to shooting our guns which is par for the course!

Editorial Team / Moderator · May 23, 2009

Great -- after you recover, we'll call you "ol' One-Hand."

casi, ASN, RN · May 23, 2009

The teenager in me is going "NEAT!!!"

The adult in me is going "Errrr... that looks dangerous."

I'm surprised people haven't seen more injuries related to this.

JStyles1 · May 26, 2009

never had a patient injured by them but i used to make them when i was younger. i dont know how someone can get injured by this though. put the stuff in, shake it, throw it, leave it alone. only an idiot would pick it back up, but then again most of my patients aren't exactly rocket scientists

**canoehead, BSN, RN** · May 27, 2009

Go see the "what I learned from my patients" thread. There are people out there that would stand next to a nuclear bomb, and go to the ER because they got a sunburn.