Worst ER Cases Ever

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[AnimatedLife]

I am not a nurse but while I was working, they wheeled in two newborns in these see through boxes trying to keep them alive. The pair of them were born premature by a 15 year old that had been using to the point of birth. They pulled through thank god, and from what I understood they went into care. I still think about those two kids and their mother. I hope all three are doing well…

[laxinitup]

We called to report possible abuse on a hospice patient that came in to my floor. The family apparently left her to sit in her own filth and put a water bottle upside down next her her bed so she could drink it like a hamster. Unbelievable

[gideonevans]

I could never do it. God bless these heros.

[Silverstar]

Also used to work in a small rural hospital fifty years ago. We would get propane burns several times a year. Most memorable was the guy who was burning weeds, and decided to take a piss and light a cigarette at the same time. Talk about roasted Weiner. We had to go down and get the "gas and air" pain reliever from labor to use for him every time we had to do a treatment. Propane is heavier than air, folks, don't smoke around it.

[zombiedoggie]

the blind/deaf mentally disabled man made me cry. How. How can someone just be this way to anyone?

[ineedvyvanse]

Urology nurse here: having to irrigate over 2 liters of straight blood from his bladder. Was a mess!

[carolinamurtha]

My husband is an EMT and this wasn’t the worst thing he saw but it was one of the most stranger things: he was dropping of a patient in the ER when this man walks in through the ambulance entrance, arms wide open (one of them drenched in blood), full stride walk, blood squirting from a wound in his neck and asks loudly “YO, IS ANYONE GONNA HELP ME AROUND HERE?!” Turns out, he was high out of his mind on cocaine or crack or both, plus some other stuff, got into a fight with some other bad guys and got stabbed in the neck. He walked a few blocks to the ER, absolutely no one stopping him along the way to check on him or anything. Despite bleeding pretty heavily he didn’t pass out or anything because, you know, drugs. My husband didn’t end up being evolved to treat him or find out what happened in the long run but he said that was definitely an experience 😅.

[Rainbowdragon]

This happened to my stepdad once. He was on dialysis and his shunt slipped while he was sleeping. My mom saved his life and cleaned up the blood mess. She then told me that peroxide helps clean blood stains if caught right off the bat. He still died from congestive heart failure though....

[squirrel]

2 minutes in and im already crying. That poor old man

[Silverstar]

I'm not above googling my ailments, but don't usually treat it for more than a week if I think I know what it is, and Dr. Google says there is home treatment possible The lady with the tumor on her leg in the garbage bag trying to "starve" the "fungus" with a vegan diet was nuts. That's not how the body works.

[impishrebel]

"entire container of aluminum phosphide" SWEET JESUS

[birdnird]

18:40 reminds me of some of those lingering radioactivity exposure deaths from the mid 20th Century

[TheSeaofScience]

“Below knee amputation” I heard “Bologna amputation”

[Imaboss]

Yup the atv crash got me couldn't keep going

[kumalala]

I once witnessed my neighbor fall and crack her skull open. That damn dog pushed her

[a_human_being_yes]

I'll never understand how paramedics do the job they do.

[carlcauch]

You need to ask those that work lab, x-ray, respiratory therapy the same questions. Back in the day night shift the ER was a place to hangout when nothing was going on. If something came I. You got to see it all. The night shift always had the most unique problems come in. My favorite was the newlywed couple that came in about 1 am with the brides jaw was dislocated. The husband said it was something she was eating. All of us except for the Dr vacated the ER to go laugh out in the hallway out of sight and sound. The Dr was left biting his tongue to maintain a professional attitude. After he got her jaw relaxed and put back in place and got a nurse to discharge her. When we all came back into the ER the Dr called us every curse word under the sun because we left him and he couldn’t do what we did. Times were fun back then.

[madisonmartin]

7:06 I have heard about that incident before but it was from the third person on another YouTube channel, my god that is scary hearing that twice from different perspectives

[BrotherKnowledge.]

For the story about the guy who used a shotgun to blast his jaw and face off...

If this happened in Georgia about 25 years ago, I may actually know the Paramedic who worked on that call.

Way back when I was in EMT school, my instructor, a Paramedic, told us that same story. Except she had the X-ray of that patient as well. As Paramedics, we don't generally learn to read X-rays in Paramedic school, let alone EMT school. (We do learn to read them later, though. Specifically when getting a certain board certification.) Despite this, I remember that X-ray almost as if I saw it last week.

[SraTacoMal]

In-patient hospital food is usually pretty good, IMO. Better than the cafeteria.