MACHINES AND TOOLS IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM 

He's an ER tech..

​@@sherw7635 Yeah, I totally came just for the comments, too!😂☺🎭

Thank u for ur service and that is so true ❤

​@sherw7635 I thought he said he was a nurse when a patient asked if he was the doctor. I'm pretty sure he's a nurse.

No he’s really an ER Tech

I've worked as a nurse for 35 years and everything he does is not only funny, its true! He makes me laugh with every upload 🙂

@@kerryn6714 New grad here terrified of residency☹ I enjoy his uploads tho!👌 Do u know any non bedside positions for new grads that doesn't require acute care experience/bedside?

@@yemialemu9902 Oh sweetie! I understand how scared you are but its so important for you to have at least a year as a bedside nurse. You would probably get 6 months in medical and 6 months in surgical or something similar. Its normal to be afraid at first but you'll get support from the team you work with. No one expects you to know everything straight away. If after a year hospital nursing is not your thing, there's plenty of different career paths you can take eg. scrub nurse in the OR, district/home nursing, locum nurse, paediatrics, radiology nurse and so much more. But first I advise you to put a year into hospital nursing, its the best way to get an all round education. You'll be great. Have a little faith in yourself and your confidence will build up with time. There's also a great nursing community on Twitter who you can talk to. Go for it girl! Cheers from Australia ✌🇦🇺🙃

@@kerryn6714 awww thank you! I appreciate your thoughtful response!🙏🙏🙏

@@yemialemu9902 My pleasure. Ill keep you in my thoughts and send you some positive vibes ✌

was the zipper not functioning anymore ?

@@Loweene_Ancalimon hahahaha

LOLOLOLOL

@@Loweene_Ancalimon my guess is that it's faster to just cut than fiddle with a zipper and even seconds can save a life in trauma situations

Wow, they even cut through zippers? That is kinda crazy.

Brings to mind an occasion when I went to urgent care on a Saturday for severe throat pain, I mean drooling because it hurt too much to swallow saliva. First thing, vitals. My normal HR is 90, RR 18, BP 90/85. They got HR 110, RR 18. AUTOMATIC BP CUFFS ARE THE WORST. My arms are big, but they always want to use a regular cuff. And let the damn thing keep repeatedly crushing my arm, sending my pressure skyhigh. This RN kept ignoring me saying please get a larger cuff or do it manually, if you don't know how to do a manual cuff I can coach you because I do it at home! Right about them the doctor walks in and I angrily ask him why my BP (now off the chart surely, they never did get a reading, stupid thing just kept recycling) matters for a F**King sore throat. He said let's try that again and stepped back out, came back in and I explained the problem, said I wasn't here for a physical but for a specific issue and can that be our focus. He said okay, you refuse. I said I refuse *further attempts* and if you portray me as noncompliant I will speak to an attorney.

@@bcaye You sound like the patient from hell.

@@pywaketpilot, I am literally not. I work in healthcare so I understand some things have to be done. This was not one of them. If the nurse had made any effort, it would have been a different story.

@@bcaye Exactly what a bully would say. Since you're so damn brilliant, why don't you just stay out of the ER and fix yourself. Save everyone a bunch of trouble.

I was in the hospital with like 100 pounds of fluid and the only way it didn't hurt was if I put my arm above my head and some nurses refused..it sent my blood pressure so high it was like 236/150.

Truth!!!

Very true, though he's not a nurse, but an ER tech.

You could ask them to gently pull the expensive pants off instead of destroying them but shirts would have to be cut.

I was in a 5 car pile that I created by veering into oncoming traffic, and I begged them to not cut my favorite jeans and shirt, even though I had a broken arm and leg. Thank goodness I grew up after I woke up in the ER.😂🎭

I lived in Gainesville for most of my life! Don't go to North Florida for emergencies, if you want to live!!

@@carolhutchinson7763 That would take too much time.

​@@kristend344sometimes it's done fat too routine

For everyone who comes here: Don’t interact with that spam comment, just report it.

@@sleepy-emerald there was another of those pom bots here earlier?

@@pokedude720 It replied to several comments on the video, yes. They’re so annoying-

@@pokedude720 what ?

@@sleepy-emerald i just like to reply to peoples opinion or have conversations online with people online

Yep

Is it still anaphylaxis if it’s not a true allergy? I think the pathophysiology with adverse reactions to ct contrast with iodine is a bit different than true allergies, since there’s no antibodies from an allergic reaction present? I’m not sure, just curious about the what classified as anaphylaxis. I’m really sorry that happened to you though, that sounds awful.

@@aidanyy3176 That's an outdated understanding of adverse reactions. For instance look up allergies to red lake dye #40 Aurora Red. It is better understood now, there was always proof in plant science btw it was only over looked and denigrated.

I go in & out of hospital a lot* due to a severe spinal condition, so I've had a few. In fairness to "catheters are no biggie", an ER nurse admittedly placed my 1st ever one so badly that it didn't function, & my pain was trivialised at the time; handwaved as me just being dramatic re: the normal discomfort. No-one paid my subsequent complaints of worsening abdominal pain (as well as of the more acute pain of the item itself any time I moved) any heed until I passed out in the shower 16 hours in, shaking & with a mean fever, whereupon someone _finally_ thought to check my bag & discovered it was empty of urine, but not of blood. The Dr was called, & to my enormous relief my ward nurse removed to the catheter - & then to my tremendous chagrin, insisted on placing another one afterwards, but that one only involved the slight discomfort I had originally been told to expect as the extent of my suffering. I experienced some anxiety for the next couple I had, but thankfully each one since has been on a scale from moderately - minimally uncomfortable, but never painful, & the worst part of the whole experience was the embarrassment of being forced to tote a visible bag of my own urine around. One nurse even did it so expertly that I didn't feel it at all! My 1st encounter was really a freak occurrence, I have had plenty of uneventful ones since then, & I can confidently reassure any woman reading not to be afraid if you do have to get a catheter put in - honestly, the suckiest bit of the shemozzle is just having your nethers on total, gaping display to the nurse (knees apart, feet together) for the brief few seconds it takes her to insert it. 😉 * Usually minimum once a year, for at least a week - not counting other accidents/illnesses.

Iodine is also a really bad idea for people with autoimmune conditions. Too much for already unstable thyroid gland to handle.

The moral of the story is: y'all r animals and not that special, your kid isn't either :P

Bravo what a beautiful thing this is !! You saved that boys life :) im so happy with good ending stories :)

The thing that always made me chuckle when I was a vet nurse was that a large majority of the medication used is the same as the ones humans use (in fact if one of us had forgotten to pop our allergy/antibiotic pill that day or the like we would grab one from the cupboard cos it was identical as what we had left at home)

Was the dog okay?

@@dreamitanyway Yes, the dog was ok, the dog was just in for a routine visit. The grandma came and picked up her up later that day.

Wow impressive

😔 I guess the head trauma confused you😔 Have you recovered completely? R u okay now?

@@nilanjasa007 I'm about as best recovery as you can expect from my injury. I have a large section of brain damage but outwardly look fine can't catch a ball and move slower but most people don't notice.

@@asjmpickle Congratulations on your recovery 😊

@@nilanjasa007 I mean it was medical professionals who did all the work I guess. I woke up from a coma did some therapy and learned to walk and stuff again but the real congratulations should go to the doctors who had my brain open and saved my life.

yep patients Trip ! rarely a decent spiritual trip... reality of going to a limbo waiting space where an Unseen decides wether to continue earthly penance, or Proceed to your next reincarnation . in my two i was Returned to this Purgatory.... no false diversions needed tho. not my first Rejection.

I can see way back when medical professionals getting grandma's fabric scissors. Breaking them. Having to replace said scissors. And going to a metal expert later because the best thing they knew failed. Thus being the result of why they're also called trauma sheers. "Oh shit, Johnny done fucked up! We need to get him out of this!" Grandma's scissors: break. Everybody going oh no for the double oops. Then boom, trauma sheers being invented. And then tracking down those exact brand and mark of scissor as an apolog to memaw and buttering her up.

I know how you feel, I broke my arm when I was six and they cut my favorite outfit off.

I was taken to the ER because I was having seizures. When I finally regained consciousness, I was very shocked to see I was completely naked, aside from a hospital gown, with a foley, hospital monitor, and saline IV. When I was being discharged, I found out they had used the trauma shears to cut off all my clothes, including my favorite pair of jeans.

They cut up Big Bird shirt when I was six since I had a massive head injury.

@@lttlEspana- The things we remember. The •important• things …not the life saving things, the real stuff, like Big Bird shirts! I haemorrhaged from my throat, a few days after a tonsillectomy, I didn’t care that I died at home, and twice more on the way to hospital, - but I was sad about my pretty new nightgown. It didn’t need to be cut off of me, but I gurgled to the nurse that I had “gotten a bit of blood on it” and asked if she knew how to clean it. Poor thing burst into tears, and promised to clean it (no one expected me to survive, so that one, very young, nurse didn’t mind lying to me, I guess!)

He says I'm another video he hasn't work in the ER in over a year.

⚜️ If you think management isn't cursing like sailors as well, then you don't understand how intense healthcare work is.

@@cindygillespie and yet they don't typically curse at the general public. But this guy is cool.

​@@KessyEileen04At this point, I hope he makes more doing comedy than he EVER did in nursing. Those of us who have worked in his field appreciate every second of his humor!

I’ve tried reading your story three times and I still don’t understand, did you have health issues that had you in and out of the hospital as a child between the age of 18 months and 4 years until someone realised you just had high blood pressure? How does that explain you ending up in hospital so often? But you have reminded me of a story when my mother went to a&e with a splitting headache screaming for help and that she was dying, the doctor said “sit down and calm down I’ll be right with you” and decided to waste 5mins changing a plaster on some guys forehead, then when he finally took my mother’s bp reading he went pale and ran for help because it was somewhere close to 230/170 (basically she should have been dead). I know most people lie and exaggerate with their symptoms/ waiting’s times etc, but desensitising staff with that bs behaviour can be really detrimental.

@@ahumanaperson I had symptoms of vomiting and being really unwell every 6 weeks like clockwork from 18 months, which caused frequent trips to hospital, and even when I was put in hospital nobody ever checked my blood pressure until I was 4 during admittance to the hospital. Even though family members also had the condition they never checked me until one guy decided to just check what the levels were. Basically the illness was my body trying to regulate the high blood pressure that had been untreated but because nobody checked my BP until then we never knew that was the problem. Luckily it's been under control since but the fact nobody checked back then baffles me since nowadays that's the first thing they often do. Good to know your mother finally got the treatment but they definitely should have checked her BP immediately. Hopefully they got it under control and found the cause if it was a underlying issue.

@@Lil-Dragon ffs how did family history or a bp check not come up in your case? 🤦‍♀️ My mothers heart issues still remain undiagnosed. ‘Angina’ / high blood pressure so far. She had a few failed stress tests. It’s truly a mystery but she’s still alive. She used to take beta blockers but gained a lot of weight which obviously made things worse. For now she’s just a highly anxious person who can’t do cardio because her bodies natural response is to cry. Anyway that was an irrelevant story, thanks for reading 🤷‍♀️.

@@ahumanaperson when i was an extern at clinic as a medical assistant, this slightly over weight guy came in with fatigue, red face and sweating. I took his blood pressure and couldn't find a top number. I was admittedly confused because i could clearly hear the beats but they never stopped. His bottom number was around 125. I gently put the cuff away and said, " you'll have to excuse me, i just got out of school. I'm gonna have the doctor check your bp." Then i calmy walked out of the room, ran to the doctor and said "I think your next patient is dying. I can't find his top blood pressure" The Doc looked at me and said "what did you say to the patient?" "I'm new and couldn't do it right. I DIDN'T WANT to scare him" Long story short, yes the guy was dying. We called 911 immediately after the doctor confirmed. He stayed in the hospital for awhile and lived to tell the tale.

lovepeace it’s insane how there is a number that apparently indicates someone is a second away from death, and yet they live. How does it get to that point? What should they do? How do they survive? Why is bp not instantly checked when patients walk in?

Yeah. They didn't warn me.

I can’t get it anymore because the last time my heart rate increased and my chest felt like it was on fire. I had been given it a few times before but that one bad time caused me to have it added to my things I’m allergic to.

@@Stop_Infanticide Me neither. I really thought I pissed my pants. Was for the moment not funny, but now I can laugh about it. When I hear that someone will get a CT or MRT with contrast, I warn them, so they are not shocked.

I would describe it as sitting on a heated car seat.

lol they warned me and in the beginning of the scan i was like "meh they are sooooo overstating it..this really feels nothing like if i was pissin.....ooooooh!!!!!! oh Gods yes it does!!!! lol wtf!!!!"

I go in & out of hospital a lot* due to a severe spinal condition, so I've had a few. In fairness to "catheters are no biggie", an ER nurse admittedly placed my 1st ever one so badly that it didn't function, & my pain was trivialised at the time; handwaved as me just being dramatic re: the normal discomfort. No-one paid my subsequent complaints of worsening abdominal pain (as well as of the more acute pain of the item itself any time I moved) any heed until I passed out in the shower 16 hours in, shaking & with a mean fever, whereupon someone _finally_ thought to check my bag & discovered it was empty of urine, but not of blood. The Dr was called, & to my enormous relief my ward nurse removed to the catheter - & then to my tremendous chagrin, insisted on placing another one afterwards, but that one only involved the slight discomfort I had originally been told to expect as the extent of my suffering. I experienced some anxiety for the next couple I had, but thankfully each one since has been on a scale from moderately - minimally uncomfortable, but never painful, & the worst part of the whole experience was the embarrassment of being forced to tote a visible bag of my own urine around. One nurse even did it so expertly that I didn't feel it at all! My 1st encounter was really a freak occurrence, I have had plenty of uneventful ones since then, & I can confidently reassure any woman reading not to be afraid if you do have to get a catheter put in - honestly, the suckiest bit of the shemozzle is just having your nethers on total, gaping display to the nurse (knees apart, feet together) for the brief few seconds it takes her to insert it. 😉 * Usually minimum once a year, for at least a week - not counting other accidents/illnesses.

For biological woman yes, but biological woman have a much shorter way to the bladder from the outside than biological men, and trust me. at the begining when they start, its the most painful for a biological man

@@Ben-ig3bf As MLC stated, it's the care giver that determines if a procedure is painful and traumatic, or relatively painless. Cathetered for 3 months, professionally inserted, self inserted, and Finally Foley catheter with day and night bag. Our fellow human caregivers determine amount of fear and pain we experience ...

Cafs hurt no matter what just try to relax and give a push when extracting it will help

Catheters are a mixed experience for some people. After my last major surgery, my catheter was so painful that it was as painful as the surgical site. And because the surgical site was the lower abdomen, I couldn't accurately tell the doctor what hurt and how much - I didn't know what was the catheter, and what was the surgery. Fortunately, my surgeon gave them permission to remove the catheter early at my "request" (it was more like begging), and so I was able to drastically reduce the amount of pain medication I needed.

I have sensory processing issues too, and I can relate. Torture.....

Same and I had to get it taken 19 times at the cardiologist

I’ve had them used for bp readings so often since childhood I enjoy the squeeze at this point, it’s like a cute hug, I’m disappointed when it ends. But I remember the first few times where I thought it would never end and pop my arm off. I think it’s the anticipation that’s probably the worst part, if there was an accurate countdown so you knew when it would end people wouldn’t get so stressed. But I also employ a ‘count back from 20’ rule with anything unpleasant, especially at the dentists office- the chances are if you count slow the unpleasantness will be over by the time you get to 0, and if not just go again and it will probably be over. The most I had to repeat was probably three or five times.

When I was in the mental ward they woke us up every morning with those electronic ones. It's the WORST when it's what you wake up to lol. And then if they don't do it right the first time it immediately just starts squeezing again on its own. The worst.

My low blood pressure means that sometimes they keep tightening well past the point of pain, to where I have to grit my teeth to soldier thru, & I have pins + needless in my fingers, & the veins in my arm are rock hard. But sometimes the nurse switching to a more sensitive machine helps, & if not, they're usually happy to take it the old-fasioned way.

There's nothing more fun than hearing a nun cuss when coming out of anaesthesia 😁

@@kerryn6714 I'm waiting for that treat, I would love to work in PACU, but their usually fully awake by the time they get to me. 🤣🤣

I work for a catholic healthcare organisation too, the colon bunching is real 😂

@@rebeccalucas6063 It'll be worth the wait! I haven't worked in OT for years but its a great place to work. Its amazing the things people say when they're coming out from under.

@@rebeccalucas6063 As fun as that sounds, I would love to do it too, I would advise you not to do it. You could show Steveioe to a patient who you just KNOW will find it hilarious..They swear around you all the time, maybe tell you vulgar jokes, etc. You feel it would be okay showing this patient, no way they would get upset. And before you know what happened, they turned on you and the Catholic hospital is on your ass. They might even laugh when you show them Stevioe vids. But you just can't trust anyone when it comes to your career. All of the sudden, your supervisor wants to know why you showed a patient these videos, that it could be seen as unethical. What?? Oh yeah, Mrs. Jones, that friendly, funny, colorful patient got very upset earlier at another nurse, because she didn't bring her pain medication on time and she was in extreme pain! She asked a couple nurses and they said her nurse should be bringing it anytime now. She began yelling about how she isn't being treated fairly, no one is helping her, no one cares and saying the staff are EXTREMELY unprofessional!!! When the head nurse came over to calm her down and find out what was going on, Mrs. Jones told her all of this. "Sorry Mrs. Jones, sometimes things get super busy, but your nurse isn't doing this on purpose, we are all doing everything to make you feel comfortable! Just relax, calm down, and she will be here soon. No worries!" Mrs. Jones, who is beyond pissed at this point, has had it. Not only is she *NOT* going to calm down and allow everyone to treat her like a toddler, she will *NOT* lose this argument. Eventually everything is told to a supervisor, and she will make sure she is taken seriously. She will use anything she can so she doesn't come across as an overreacting impatient Karen, she will show that her little tantrum was justified. "Not only was I in excruciating pain and nobody would listen, I had some lady actually tell me to *calm down* ? Oh, there was another nurse here earlier who showed me videos of a nurse on the internet, calling everyone motherfuckers! Now how's *THAT* for unprofessional?!? He was calling the patients, "motherfuckers"!! Is that what I am?? A motherfucker?!?" Now you have to explain yourself... About why you thought it would be appropriate to show those videos to Mrs. Jones or to ANY patient. 🤦🤦

No we need only him. We don’t need just one in every er. we need lots of him in every er

“Aggressively attempting to relax” is perfect… 🤣

LMAO mine was once 100 while completely calm.

he's a nurse

@@karamboubou8579 He's an ER tech.

​@@karamboubou8579He's a tech

You can say that again!! Plus I nce that epidural went in my legs just disappeared. They could've been gone for all I knew from the lack of feeling. Even for a bit afterwards I was wobbly. Nurses are absolute angelic heros.

They just call in a guy like me that is not perturbed in least by screaming attention seeking children, young OR old. I just pick them up by the neck and hold them that way for a while and they settle down eventually. Sometimes they even fall asleep.

I get your side of things but as a mother of a non-verbal autistics boy who takes medical exam very badly I feel hurt with your comment. Believe me, as annoying as it is for you, for the parent it's heartbreaking.

Time to teach it buddy!

I hate that stuff it makes me feel like I am overheating or something. Yech.

CT contrast makes me break out in hives.

OP lol

Wow. I've never had that reaction to contrast but I've always felt like I was about to wet myself when they push the contrast in

I have never vomited because of contrast dye for CT scan. My problem is that I break out in hives if contrast dye is used.

For some reason they didn’t use contrast on me either when I had a ct scan done

@Adykayful - Yes, I am allergic to contrast dye for CTs also. When I tell them, they always say: “Are you sure?” YES, I AM SURE!!!

With the one I bought from the pharmacy, there is a way to stop it going to high. I know what BP usually is, so I just go a bit above that. 120 is high for me, so I don't need the full range.