Hospital worker here. No amount of education can undo the dogma of right wing extremism. You wouldn’t think hateful bigots would be counted among nurses, doctors, etc since they literally spent years studying exactly why they should know better.
But the Fox or some preacher starts hating on trans folks and suddenly their medical knowledge about the community is just straight to into the dumpster.
They need to be fired.
You’re not kidding - you should have a stool softener prescribed alongside it. DO NOT SKIP THAT ONE!!
Also stay very well hydrated.
Drug induced constipation is unreal - you feel like you’re shitting a cinder block. Sometimes there really is no pushing it out, and that can lead to an impacted bowel. If it’s been a couple days of not being able to crank that turd out, it’s time to go to the ER!
Try compression socks or a wrap - puts and keeps a bit of pressure on the itchy spot. I’d try at home first incase it aggravates it, but a little pressure can help with itch.
Common side effect for tramadol, or any opioid agonist. Idk why, but the itch seems to effect the nose especially - drives some patients crazy.
What can friends do to help during recovery?
If you know what kind of food she likes, bring her that. Having meals ready to go saves a lot of hassle (and painful movement) right after surgery.
If any of the laparoscopic instruments are in that shot, the diameter of the shaft of nearly all of them is 5mm, which can give a sense of scale.
Some of them have 1cm interval markings on the shaft as well.
…also literally every surgical supply pack (bunch of sterile supples contained in a backtable drape - opening and unfolding that is the start of your sterile field) has some kind of measuring device in it - usually just a disposable ruler, but lots of other random supplies have 1 cm intervals etched into them as well cuz why not I guess. They could have (and usually do) put one of those next to the specimen when taking a photo of it. …they might have simply forgotten that step lol.
Not OP, but- she’ll have lost some mass, but it might not be a noticeable amount. The uterus is a super adaptable organ: depending on what stage of menstruation, pregnancy, or neither, the uterus can range in size from a chicken drumstick to a basket ball.
She also will have been NPO (nothing by mouth - no food or drink for around 12h before the surgery), so her weight going in was likely lower than normal; and had an IV pumping saline into her during her operation / waking up hungry as fuck and now with the green light to actually eat… so, she may have actually gained weight just by returning to a normal state of satiation and by being super well hydrated.
Source - I’m a surgical tech. I’ve assisted in probably a hundred or so hysterectomies, and have physically handled the specimen after it’s been removed in nearly all of them.
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The only thing useful this traitor’s life will amount to is watering a few sunflowers.
Ukraine, sorry for letting our trash blow into your yard. This shouldn’t be your problem, but since it is, be safe while disposing of it.
your patients can show you where it hz.
Air guitar takes on a whole new meaning
I’m imagining the overhead page system going off with “ATTENTION I’M THE HOSPITAL! CODE SAXOPHONE! ROOM 338! ALL TEAMS RESPOND!”
You might be on to something though - alarm fatigue is a huge issue in healthcare, so coding familiar sounds like instruments as meaning specific things could actually be great. You hear a saxophone tone and know immediately that something cardiac is happening; guitar, respiratory, etc.
Right now everything is just a beep, and after hearing that non-stop for years, you kinda just stop noticing it, which is super bad.
I actually have a pair of shokz - they’re awesome! I don’t think they’d work for this specifically though - they struggle with low ranges, and one of the Bluetooth stethoscope websites specifies that bone conduction isn’t a good match.
…worth a shot though - if it does work, it’d be a super convenient solution!
I’ll need to dig into this a bit. If I’m going to use my phone as a bridge between the stethoscope and hearing aids, I’ll need something that can boost the pitch in real time. I don’t want any patient data saved onto my phone. Some of the Bluetooth stethoscopes have a corresponding app that can save sound clips, but that strikes me as risky from a HIPAA standpoint.
Anywho, DJ software didn’t even cross my mind, so thanks! Awesome idea!
pitch-shift them with some simple software to make the 20hz sound like 50hz or whatever
Ooh. OOH! Okay so I’m kind of an idiot when it comes to tech, but that sounds like a high-potential option. How would I go about doing that?
Here’s the one I’m looking at - Stemoscope Pro (lol can you tell the pandemic was in full swing when this vid hit?!)
There’s a microphone, but not in the sense that you’re probably thinking - it can’t pick up conversations and such the way a phone or something could. For it to work it has to be pressed up against tissue for that sound to conduct through to it. It’ll still pick up some ambient noise, but nothing intelligible.
Basically the same with a normal stethoscope - the bell is always transmitting sound to the ear pieces, but you can’t like put the ear piece in and use it to spy on someone the next room over - gotta shove it onto their skin for anything with any degree of clarity to come through.
So, it’s not capable of storing your colonoscopy results. Paired with a phone, it could save a recording of your bowel sounds if it was used to listen for those, but even that isn’t something that could be used to identify you. Everyone’s bowels makes pretty much the same gurgle - your nurse is just checking to make sure they’re present and whether the frequency of them is normal.
All that said, I don’t like that there’s a phone app. The sounds themselves being saved is fine; but if some dumbass nurse saves that file as “John Smith.mp3” then that’s 100% a HIPAA violation. That kind of app should only ever be used on hospital-owned devices, never personal ones. Needless to say, I don’t intend to ever install the app - fuck that liability, even if it comes down to a baseless accusation. I’ll just pair it directly to a speaker, play the sounds in real time, and that’s it. If I need to listen to them again, I’ll need to take them again.
^that.
I can hear low ranges pretty well, to include heart and lung sounds from a normal stethoscope.
Using speakers or headphones that can play that 20-100 hz range would effectively bypass the hearing aids - they wouldn’t record or payback those sounds at all, it’d just be a straight shot from the Bluetooth speaker to my ears.
I actually have a pair of shokz - they’re awesome! I don’t think they’d work for this specifically though - they struggle with low ranges, and one of the Bluetooth stethoscope websites specifies that bone conduction isn’t a good match.
…might be worth a shot though - sounds quality doesn’t need to be amazing, it just needs to be audible.
Thanks!!
Looking at those graphs, I’m assuming amplitude in that 20-100 hz range is ideally as close to that center line as possible? Seems like most options are very low on that range, but not completely absent - how low would you say is too low for a project like this?
Like that Denon in your second link, 20 hz is showing at about -17 on the amplitude axis, is that audible?
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Definitely not going to rule out headphones, as those might be the best option; but my main hangup there is bulk, and needing to actually handle it with each use. Part of why I was leaning toward those hang-around-the-neck bluetooth speakers is the thin profile and that I can just leave them on and paired with the stethoscope - then the only thing I’d have to handle is the stethoscope itself. Minimizing actually touching it is definitely a priority… can’t stress enough how nasty hospitals are!
One of the prereqs I had to take ahead of nursing school was an early US history course, which focused heavily on how we treated Native Americans.
I already knew it was bad before that class. That ‘already knew’ was barely a scratch on the tip of the iceberg… and that class was a 101 level dip-your-toes-into-the-content-to-try-it-on but didn’t go too deep into any one topic… so… maybe a solid dent in the tip of the iceberg? We are not good people.
I’ve had a refreshingly easy time talking some sense into my more Nazi-leaning coworkers. This is one of those times that ‘both sides!’ is actually useful.
Just tell em it’s not a partisan issue: “Trump’s not releasing it cuz he wants to protect whichever republicans appear on it - maybe even including himself! …but don’t think this won’t shake the blue team to its core, too: think of how much of those files are just Bill Clinton! This will purge out the trash from the democrats and republicans, and maybe even prompt the two to actually get some work done instead fruitlessly bashing heads all the time.”
I’ve had pretty much zero resistance from the folks that are typically in 100% trumpanzee mode all the fucking time.
Well… the good news is you can stretch your income a bit further with spaghettification!