Wednesday, January 20, 2010

What's wrong with these pictures?






Greetings from the ANA OR. I'm actually in my room posting this now, but these pictures were taken in the OR this morning. In the picture you see a stone. It is a little bigger than a golf ball, and a little heavier as well. It is very rough in texture. It sort of feels like a hedge apple, but a little sharper. It is very dense. The problem is...it came out of the pt's BLADDER. The pt. presented with urinary retention and a feeling of heaviness in his bladder...you think???. I personally, in 19 years in the OR, have never seen this before. The second picture was taken right as they pulled it out. In the third picture... Notice the Doc in the white lab coat? What is he doing? He's not "scrubbed in". He was so interested that he just walked in...grabbed an instrument (not sterile, they used it for the prep) and started poking around. I about had a stroke...and they all laughed at my reaction. Apparently...this is acceptable. I said we will talk about in our class on Sunday.

1 comment:

  1. So germ theory hasn't exactly made it there yet?! That stone is interesting...wonder what kind of bacteria will grow from that thing.

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