r/Residency•7 yr. agomith_ef[MEME] not everyone needs narcanPosted Aug 12, 2019, 10:17 PM UTC1075ShareSave
We used to have “Trauma Abductions.” It was when a person was “found down” and intubated for combativeness, probably because of their TBI.
In reality, it was usually a homeless dude who’d had a little to drink and was peacefully sleeping it off under a bench.
They would be extubated in the AM, given a sandwich, a sorta apology, and allowed to leave at their leisure.
Our hospital gets a lot of these as transfers. It’s stupidly obvious the patient was intubated so they could be turfed to us for “higher level of care”.
Tube & Turf.
That is a dick move.
omg this is incredible
i laughed so hard