r/nursing • u/KeepAwayTheNargles RN - PICU 🍕 • Jan 06 '24

Nursing Hacks I’m Watching House

…and he just said, “Get me 40mg of furosemide so I can intubate!” I know medical shows are notoriously inaccurate but that one felt especially ludicrous. I died. The patient did not.

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u/squabble123 BSN RN, CWOCN Jan 06 '24

Lmfao my favorite was when a colostomy bag “backed up” and stool came out the guys mouth

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u/babygotbooksandback RN 🍕 Jan 06 '24

I had a lady in the early 90’s with such a bad bowel obstruction she was vomiting feces smelling stuff. I dropped a NG tube on her and we got a lot of that feces smelling stuff in the canister. I do remember she had that NG tube for a long time with us but can’t remember exactly how her obstruction was resolved. I don’t recall her going to surgery. I do remember it being one of the only two times a patient was so grateful to have a NG tube placed.

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u/sailorvash25 Jan 06 '24

Oh it’s 100% possible I just don’t necessarily think with a colostomy and no other interventions….

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u/sailorvash25 Jan 06 '24

HAHAHA that’s incredible. Why the colostomy then I wonder….

My favorite that I remember is a guy that got his hand caught in a wood chipper and he was just like sitting there talking to them just as casual af instead of like bleeding out instantly. Just slap a tourniquet on it and send him to the hospital and he was fine. Tourniquets are magic.

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u/phoenix762 retired RRT yay😂😁 Jan 06 '24

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u/I_am_pyxidis RN - Pediatrics 🍕 Jan 07 '24

That would be a great advertisement for a colostomy bag that actually stays in place! It would for sure fall off or burst before it backed up. Although I've never actually seen one burst, they always just get heavy or soaked and fall off.

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u/jarveydoxy Jan 08 '24

NO WAAAY. Then what’s the point of the colostomy?