[Dog Welder]

I'm currently doing my paramedic hospital rounds at Los Angeles County/USC. His hospital sees more trauma than just about any hospital in the nation. The Navy sends its corpsman there to get training.

Well we get a guy who got shot at a party by 5 .22 rounds. The surgeons cracked his chest right in the middle of the operating room and I had my hands in his chest up to my elbows squeezing his heart...straight bitchin...here's hoping he didn't have and diseases.

 

[dan wask]

Thats the gnarliest thing I've heard all week, so did he make it ?

 

[PacificPointer]

I'd have to go over to the "Pot" topic and ***relax**** after doing something like that.

 

[BIRDMAN111]

.22 caliber rounds civilians than any other caliber bullet.

excuse me .22 caliber rounds kill more people(civilians)than any other caliber bullit.

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[corey_rideDC]

I don't think that's a sentence.

 

[Transcend]

.22 caliber rounds civilians than any other caliber bullet.

There is at least one verb missing from that sentence.

 

[dan wask]

.22 caliber rounds civilians than any other caliber bullet.

you verb from sentence.

 

[mindlessfr]

i think what he meant to say was ".22 caliber rounds kill more civilians than any other caliber bullet"

 

[Toshi]

i hope you were wearing gloves!

 

[Jeremy R]

...straight bitchin...here's hoping he didn't have and diseases.

He is probaly on gangstermonkey.com right now posting about how some dirty mountain biker had his hands in his chest.

Were you humming Bon Jovi's "Shot through the heart" or would that have been inappropriate?

Good job though, I bet that was grossly thrilling.

 

[elRey]

My dad worked as a nurse in the trauma center for about ten years. Needless to say, he has some pretty gnarly stories.

 

[Dog Welder]

Thats the gnarliest thing I've heard all week, so did he make it ?

Are you kidding me Fck NO! I've have never seen soooo much blood just run out of some one. it wasn't dripping, it wasn't even running out...it was freaking GUSHING OUT. there was a puddle of blood about 4 feet in diameter not counding the double handfulls of clotted blood that the surgeon scooped out with his hands as if you were about to take a drink from a stream. I accidentally stepped in the puddle an left a 3 foot long streak when I almost lost my balance. And to actually see the lungs physically inflate like two balloons was freaking wild.

 

[Dog Welder]

i hope you were wearing gloves!

yes but they weren't the sterile kind...and they sure as hell didn't even cover my wrists...i almost lost my watch in there. Though as a testament to the pure awesomness of Luminox watches, the face was so bright in that dark ass cavity that it actually lit it up some.

 

[Changleen]

Sounds like a great party.

 

[firetoole]

I'm currently doing my paramedic hospital rounds at Los Angeles County/USC. His hospital sees more trauma than just about any hospital in the nation. The Navy sends its corpsman there to get training.

Well we get a guy who got shot at a party by 5 .22 rounds. The surgeons cracked his chest right in the middle of the operating room and I had my hands in his chest up to my elbows squeezing his heart...straight bitchin...here's hoping he didn't have and diseases.

You lucky bastard,
one of the guys in my medic class got to do it in an elivator I was so jelous.

 

[urbaindk]

You lucky bastard,
one of the guys in my medic class got to do it in an elivator I was so jelous.

I did it in an elevator once.

 

[DRB]

He is probaly on gangstermonkey.com right now posting about how some dirty mountain biker had his hands in his chest.

Were you humming Bon Jovi's "Shot through the heart" or would that have been inappropriate?

Good job though, I bet that was grossly thrilling.

and Jeremy R continues his reign as the funniest monkey......

 

[Westy]

I'd have to go over to the "Pot" topic and ***relax**** after doing something like that.

Something tells me they don't let those who frequent that thread into jobs like that.

Doctor-"Dude, this dying guy is totally harshing my mellow"
Nusre-"I know, hand me that nitrous mask"
Doctor-"right on"
Nurse-"All that blood makes me hungry for a Strawberry Slurpy"
Doctor-"Do you think he'll live?"
Nurse-"The janitor has some primo buds he's been growing in the supply closet, tastes like blueberries"
Doctor-"right on"

 

[Toshi]

there are more than a handful of pot smokers in my class, actually, including some of the most studious...

 

[scrublover]

yep. the general public would be surprised by the amount of healthcare folks who smoke up. look at it this way: we're just another segment of society, just like everyone else out there who may or may not smoke up. it's the ones who get to doing bad drugs that scare me.

(fwiw, i don't, but know plenty of folks who do.)

DW: cool! worst/messiest i've had was a post partum gal who was bleeding out like the proverbial stuck pig. coding her inthe room, on the bed, doing chest compressions.......as her husband rounded the corner into the room......we'd all thought he was out in the waiting room. oops. not pretty.

then there was the time i saw a doc pumping up a pressure bag to get some blood in fast. overdid it a bit..... that kept housekeeping busy in that room for quite some time.