Key Takeaways
- Medical professionals recount diverse, unexpected foreign objects found in patient rectums.
- A nursing student's first patient, with a unique foreign object, led to a positive interaction.
- Patient explanations for objects varied, some linked to substance use and sexual activity.
- Medical teams employ creativity and perseverance for challenging foreign object extractions.
Deep Dive
- A guest shares her initial reluctance towards nursing despite attending Georgia Southern University, transitioning to clinical rotations.
- Her first hospital rotation in a low-income area introduced her to an 83-year-old male patient with a 'foreign object near the cecum.'
- The nursing student initially panicked, assuming the object was of a sexual nature.
- The patient bluntly stated, 'I have a bike handle up my ass' during her assessment.
- The 83-year-old patient explained he combined a vibrator with a bicycle handlebar for added girth, which then became lost inside him.
- He waited for the vibrator's battery to die before seeking medical help via public transportation.
- The patient ultimately underwent surgery for the object's removal and was described as a 'great patient.'
- The interaction led to a positive experience for the nursing student, helping her overcome anxieties and fostering a friendship.
- A surgical technologist and PA school student describes assisting surgeons with foreign object cases.
- She recounts a surgeon contacting her about a patient presenting with an inguinal hernia.
- A scan revealed an unexpected 8 to 9-inch object in the patient's abdomen.
- During surgery, the medical team discovered the object was a screwdriver; the patient's colon reportedly acted like a vacuum, causing it to travel far up.
- The guest theorized the patient, who was on meth, was involved in 'a thousand percent sexual' activity, leading to forgetting the 9-inch screwdriver.
- The screwdriver was 'covered in other stuff' and speculated to have been inside for one to two weeks without causing injury, due to the sigmoid colon's S-shape.
- The guest, a general surgery resident, had the screwdriver cleaned and returned to the patient, with the surgeon advising caution for future storage.
- A general surgery resident received a 4 a.m. call about a 50-year-old male with a pear stuck in his rectum for eight hours.
- Initial attempts in the Emergency Department to remove the pear using a Foley catheter and ring forceps were unsuccessful.
- The patient was transferred to the operating room, where the surgical team struggled with instruments like anal dilators and speculums.
- After successfully removing the pear, the narrator discovered a second object, which turned out to be a clementine, leading to the nickname 'Tiny Hands'.
- A man, alone, attempted to explore a sexual kink using a dog toy as a butt plug, which became lodged.
- During self-removal attempts with tools, including a knife, the man caused further injury, requiring surgery and an ostomy.
- An ER medical professional recounted this as the most severe foreign object case she had encountered in seven years of ER work.