What the f*co was that! (Picc line removal)

May 2, 2019 9:50 AM

Crazy how doctors can run a flexible line like that from your arm to your heart but I can't run a frickin USB cable through the my desk.

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This is what RN's do when they aren't playing cards.

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That's a line that goes straight to your heart.

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So is "let's go order a pizza and binge Airbender"

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So much easier than putting them in...what a pain in the ass

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When you pull out a REALLY long booger...

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How the fuck did that get in there?!

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Carefully.

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See nothing in my sleeve. *Pulls something out of your sleeve. We has a wizard on our hands

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Me on a children birthday party

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I've had a PICC line and you dont feel them pulling it out.

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It is the weirdest feeling. It doesn’t hurt all just a slight tug.

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I just had one of those removed recently. Best day of my life.

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No longer needing it is a great feeling

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Being a patient with a serious illness is not for the feint of heart.

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I had a nasal gastric tube pulled out, it went all the way down to my feet in the bed, nurse did it in one pull

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Rip it like a lawn mower!

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Should be laying down to take that bad boy out, but let it rip.

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YES!!!! Me watching it: please don't move that arm, please don't get an air embolus, where's the petroleum gauze?!

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That's what I said too!

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I mean this is what a picc line is. It is supposed to be long enough to be placed around the entry of your heart so that medicine can be 1/2

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Given without other peripheral veins getting damaged and also for long term use of medication due to this being less prone to infection

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I would not be able to handle that. I’m pretty squeamish when it comes to IVs.

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It's really not that bad. They numb the area with a local and just feed it through. I hate needles and ivs as well, but this want bad. (1)

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Keeping the area dry, through, was a mighty pain in the ass.

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Wtf!?!? Can we get some kind of warning? I was all in for some squirting blood or the like. But this shit is out of bounds.

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Is this a joke

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I had an IV line removed from my elbow. Chatting to the Dr while discharging, resident ripped the tape off without warning

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Had an epidural during labor. Afterwards, the guy came in and just ripped of the adhesive. It covered my whole back. Took off skin. So itchy

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they did they said it was a picc line removal

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I had a tube wider and longer shoved down my nostril, behind my front face and down the stomach. No sedatives. Fucking traumatic

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Front face? Do people have back faces?

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You do once you try it on your own body. Take a finger a trace from your nostril and back, behind there just above your mouth. You feel that

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Distinction so vividly. In between violently gagging anyway

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Voldemort, is that you?

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Nurses don't get paid enough; that is crazy. Why isn't that nurse playing cards with the rest of them.

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She did, but lost. Hence she had to do this.

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I guess Aces over 8s can't work for everyone

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As someone who works in a nursing home, some of them get paid plenty others not near enough.

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Some play cards, others work. Same pay...

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At my hospital only docs are allowed to do this. Silly policy, never bothered to question. Now convinced it’s to protect game time haha

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RNs do them here

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Absolutely no reason they shouldn’t be allowed to! Just one of those quirky institutional things I suppose.

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Did she make circuis music as she pulled it out?

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Tah Dah, and jazz hands at the end

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It stared a tiny lawnmower inside him.

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BA DA daddle daddle LA DA DA DA!

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More likely lawn mower engine sputtering noises.

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Slidewhistle

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I'd set this to Yakety Sax

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I make circus music when I pull out, but that's because I'm dressed like a clown.

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Yeah?

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That's fucking funny.

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Can't wait to see the video of them inserting it.

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I had mine done under an x-ray. They numbed up my arm and used a needle or something to manuever the tube to my heart while watching x-ray

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Just reverse this vid. Boom.

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Lol I pull these out weekly (an a nurse not some lunatic pulling out picc lines) before patients discharge. Doesn't hurt a bit.

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had a nurse come to my house every so often to give me meds through this when I was little, you feel a tug but its gone before you know it

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I love the image of someone just randomly going around pulling them out... You've put a crazed smile on my face today. Well done.

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Does it hurt putting them in?

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Yeah it does a bit. It's like getting an iv in a pretty sensitive spot. Like by your armpit. On the way out though? Nothing.

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They numb the area but it’s stitched to your arm to keep it there.

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Correct. I forgot about that.

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For the people asking, it’s essentially just a more semi-permanent IV used for long term medications like super antibiotics. It goes >

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I have an even-more-permanent one that goes in through the skin in my chest (Hickman catheter).

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My ex had one when he was going through chemo.

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But how did they get it in in the first place?

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*Very* carefully.

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just reverse the gif

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Had three of these. They suck.

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They put it in a vein and push it up and over to the heart. They use a GPS-like system to guide it into place. I had one. The procedure (1)

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is done under local anesthesia. I think it took about 20 minutes or so to do.

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That's fucking amazing medically wise. Organ Trail is a game I'd play

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Just look up angiography/intervetions and see more amazing stuff

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Almost all the way to the heart.

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Superior vena cava!

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How the fuck does it feel when they remove it?!

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Not weird at all, you have no nerves on the inside of your blood vessels

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So I guess your skin burns a bit at the injection site?

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Actually that's really good to know, thank you. I imagine that theres sense of movement though?? I havent watched because HHHNN ; ^ ; still

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When I got mine pulled out the pull on the edge of my skin was the weirdest part, couldnt really feel it moving through my arm.

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