Ouch!A friend was once given a biopsy by a sleep-deprived junior doctor.
They needed a sample of his colon, so inserted the long bendy jaws-on-the-end thingy, located the suspect area and... he shot through the ceiling. Doctor had forgotten to administer any anaesthetic.
What was your ouchiest moment?
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chthonic, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 17:29)
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Wow......I'm glad he's okay. He's displaying paradoxical breathing. His chest is moving in on inspiration and out on expiration - the reverse of what is normal. Pretty rare and sometimes seen in kids with severe respiratory distress. Hope you wouldn't mind me showing this at work to the student paramedics? It's an incredible example of paradoxical breathing.
(, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 15:23, 1 reply)
No problemswhatsoever with showing this to anyone really. The cause of it was acute tonsilitis causing the tonsils to swell so much they were meeting in the middle coupled with low muscle tone leading to obstructive sleep apnoea. It did lead to an interesting discussion between the medics and the surgery team - the medics wanted an operation ASAP but the surgeons did not want operate until he was breathing better - fortunately the medics won otherwise I fear we would still be waiting :-)
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