Normally, I prefer interesting, sick cases over the routine stuff. Not between the hours of 11pm and 4am though. Not when they come in all at once. Not when I am by myself on the overnight shift. I’ll take some regular ‘ole CHF any day over:
1. Sigmoid sinsus thrombosis in someone who randomly fell and hit their head.
2. Severe hypocalcaemia from an overenthusiastic thyroidectomy with carpoedal spasm, seizures, and strabismus.
3. A baby with intussusception
4. A young man with likely toxic shock syndrome from God-know’s where.
5. A woman with a big ball of half chewed spagetti and Italian bread lodged in her esophagus.
6. A guy with a recurrent head bleed that no one can figure out what the cause is – despite massive MRI and angiographical workups.
7. A guy with a giant thrombosed haemorrhoid – well, that one was cool. I incised it and got the mother of all clots out.
Just wondering, what is Sigmoid sinus thrombosis?
Some interesting, some yuck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_sinus
Ooh sigmoid sinus thrombosis. I saw that the other day as well…Patient had a sinus infection, abscess, and said thrombus. Fatal pre-antibiotics.
oh thank you, that sounds horrible
Working in health care really changes the definition of “cool.”
Black cloud anyone?