URGENT!!! Can anyone Help!?
Hi, im a VERY desperate! I have called numerous places all of which with NO answers! Today my step father came across a baby bunny outside believed to be a cottontail? Well he wasnt running or anything, we have an old rabbit cage, and placed the bunny in there, he was fine!! Drank out of the watter bottle, even nibbled on some romain lettuce and a bit of strawberries!! We let him settle and then all of a sudden he became extremely weak...sadly like he is dying!! But im hopeing that there is something i can still do!! I dont know what happened?? I called Critter Crossing she suggessted to buy an ear dropper evapporated milk and do 50% formula and 50% water. He did take some of that, and I have towels around him, also a heating pad set to low!! I dont want him to die!! Please let me know if there is help??
What are the urgent problems of every nurse?
One problem is there aren't enough nurses. You usually work 12 hour shifts, stand on yoir feet for long hours, move heavy patients around in the bed or up and down in the chair. Sometimes you have an extremely sick patient and taking care of that patient decreases the amount of time and attention your other patients get. Not being adequately trained to work in an area is also a serious problem. I worked in ICUs, and did not wat nurses with no ICU training to work there. I felt I was babysitting and having to train that nurse on all if our procedure, when to call the doctor, looking at the monitors, understanding order. And I'm sure they didn't want to be back there either. And one more thing, this comes with years of practice. Organize yourself. Don't stop and start patient care at the beginning of a shift to keep running back and forth to the chart and nurses notes. It saves time and keeps you on schedule if you identify a patient that may go downhill quick on your shift so you can have resuscitation equipment close by and know how to use it.
As an ER doctor or nurse, what’s the wildest explanation for an injury you’ve heard in the emergency room?
Not a medical professional, but once when I was in college I had to invent my own rather absurd excuse which may or may not have been all that original. I knew that no one would believe it, but that wasn't the point. I didn't expect them to believe it. I didn't care if they believed it. I just needed them to not be able to disprove it. More importantly, I needed a plausible reason for the police to not get involved. You see, I did something pretty stupid that also happened to be illegal.Bottom line, I got drunk, and I decided to take my new-to-me motorcycle for a lap around the apartment complex parking lot… it didn't go well. I put it down going around the first curve. At first I thought that I was okay, but then I realized that I had a rather large gash down my…umm…let's say the extremely upper rear portion of my leg. You could also probably say that I basically ripped myself a new a$$hole…far too close to literally for my tastes.So, what did I tell the poor guy at the ER who had to stitch up my *cough* leg? I got drunk, and decided to go rollerblading down a steep hill. It was absurd, but technically possible. The doctor didn't believe me. It was clear that he didn't believe me. Hell, I said it in a way that made it pretty clear that I didn't expect him to believe me. I made it pretty clear, without actually saying the words, that “Yes, this is an excuse. Yes, I did something really stupid. Yes, I'm both embarrassed, and I'm trying to avoid the potential consequences of my drunken actions. No, I don't plan on ever doing it again. No, I don't expect you to believe me…I just need you to not call the cops. Oh, and yes it was a *single person rollerblading accident*…no other people or property was involved.” His basic attitude was “you're an idiot who did something idiotic, but I'll go along with the whole not saying what we both know actually happened thing.”
Why are nurses in the ER so laid back and show no urgency in assisting patients?
The waiting room is always full. Seriously sick patents are sent back first, they always get attention. Generally they try and spread out the sickest over all the nurses so Sally doesn’t end up with three ICU level patents and Sam has three sore throats. So if Sally has three patents one that is attempting to die and awaiting an ICU or interfacility transfer because they are to sick for the hospital they walked into, and she has two not so sick’s. Why bust butt to clear one of the not so sicks? You run around and manage to clear a bed it just gets filled with another not so sick, that you now have to admit, get orders, assess. Or worse it gets filled with a pretty sick, who needs more attention than you can afford to give because of the first patent whos attempting to die. Beds clear when they clear. Most of the time you’re not waiting on the nurse, the doctor can only move so fast the lab results are dragging because of the three rule out MIs that rolled in and need stat triponins, or a paged attending is tied up on the floor and knows that the ED won’t let the patent die (but the resident he’s supervising is attempting to kill with the effect of a mob hitman). So there you sit. Not sick enough for action, and not well enough to leave. It sucks ive been there it’s frustrating. Don’t let yourself be forgotten but also realize that if they aren’t in a hurry your two things. 1 health or at least not sick. 2. Waiting for a system that works on priority and you’re not number one.
URGENT!! New born chihuahua puppy! Gashed head! Able to self feed? HELP!!!?
My dog just gave birth today and i left to run some errands. When i came back the baby's skin was gashed open like if the mom bit him or something. The baby doesn't cry or anything and is moving normally but is there something that i can put on her so it can close up and cure faster? Also can i feed the new born like buy milk from walmart and give it to her in a bottle?? Please please answer asap! If there are any vets can you give me an email i can contact you with to talk more about this problem???? HELP!!
Serious medical question to ask, emergency, doctors/students on here or better yet ob/gyn if possible?HELP!!?
I don't understand why you feel you didn't get the medical treatment as quickly as you should have. You were date raped and waited 18 weeks before deciding to have an abortion, why wait so long? You have to have known long before that time that you were pregnant. Why when you went to the hospital the night you were raped didn't you get a pill to prevent the pregnancy? You are mad because after 18 weeks you decide to abort and you think the Docs should do something right NOW, what about 18 weeks ago? The Docs would have done something a lot sooner but you waited so long and the Docs nor I can figure out why. Most women who are raped want something done ASAP, I know, I was raped and I would not have waited 18 weeks before getting something done about it. Now you are angry at them because they don't jump when you say jump. They would have gladly done something 18 weeks ago if you had let them or told them you wanted to abort but you chose to wait so why are you blaming the Docs when something could have been done 18 weeks ago.It just doesn't make sense to wait so long before getting the abortion.
Emergency Medicine: I have a traveler from Finland over who has a UTI. Where can she go in NYC for treatment?
There are some large pharmacies (like CVS's Minute Clinic: http://www.minuteclinic.com/) that have nurse practitioners running little clinics inside of the store. They could take care of a UTI with ease and require a much smaller payment.
I have a stress fracture can it turn to a break?
I have a stress fracture in my ankle from cross country from not wearing the right shoes at the beginning of the year I have better shoes now and the fracture is not to severe but I wanna keep running can it turn into a full on break?? Please don't tell me a stress fracture is a break because I know that I mean can it totally break my bone in half not just the crack through the bone!
What are some of the most bizarre, unusual, embarrassing or hilarious injuries and incidents seen by emergency room staff?
The definitive collection of funny stories from the ER, from Student Doctor Network's emergency medicine forum:Things I Learn From My PatientsSome highlights:Tonight I learned yet another helpful life lesson from one of my patients. If you're on the street corner selling coke and you see the cops coming to bust you don't eat all your coke. Having been taught this valuable lesson I will now know better than to do this and wind up going to the ER in handcuffs, seizing uncontrollably, aspirating my vomit and doing all of this with a white powder moustache looking like and ad for "Got Coke?"Always wait until finishing your woodwork with the skillsaw prior to using your meth.Latex paint, despite being thick and creamy, does not coat your stomach and provide the same relief as pepto bismol.When your 15yo daughter gives precipitous delivery to a bleating, underweight infant 30 minutes after presenting to triage c "gas pains", you should run around the department loudly yelling, "I don't know what y'all did or who that baby is, but my lil' girl warn't pregnant when she come in here!"The fact that you put a condom over the electric toothbrush lodged within you does not make it 'safe' anal stimulation.