pop quizz, hot shot:

[urge]

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Here's the scenario:

Yourself on call, Indian food, toilet, and code beeper going off for a stat c section. Lots of "clean up" holding you down.

What would you do?

 

[IN2B8R]

Here's the scenario:

Yourself on call, Indian food, toilet, and code beeper going off for a stat c section. Lots of "clean up" holding you down.

What would you do?

I would ask for divine intervention for both myself (first), then the baby....

 

[EternalMD]

Tube the poop and then tube the dood

 

[Noyac]

Call someone else yourself.

 

[Planktonmd]

If you have a cell phone you can do this:
Tell them to proceed to the OR, place monitors and Oxygen on the patient and prep the abdomen while you finish your business.
You will have at least 5 minutes.

 

[Noyac]

If you have a cell phone you can do this:
Tell them to proceed to the OR, place monitors and Oxygen on the patient and prep the abdomen while you finish your business.
You will have at least 5 minutes.

Isn't this just a code pager that is going off?

 

[SleepIsGood]

Tell them it's Obamacare....stat c/s's now take longer to respond. Finish your business.

 

[rsgillmd]

Come on, I know there's got to be at least one person on here who wants to say: Call them from your cell phone and tell them to proceed under local.

 

[rsgillmd]

Since Plank seemed to try and post a serious answer I guess I can also. Forget about finishing your business -- you've been given voluntary muscles for a reason. Quick cleanup of yourself and head out to take care of the patient.

OB nurses usually get themselves into a huge huff over a STAT C/S and waste time by trying to rush (uncoordinated movement). You've got a minimum of a minute, likely 2 minutes to clean up and meet them in the OR.

Heck where I am now even when we get in the OR I find myself waiting a little (exact time unknown -- it feels like forever, but probably isn't more than a minute) before putting a patient to sleep because I'm ready but the surgeons aren't. Two possibilities: I've gotten faster since training or the surgeons are slower here than where I trained. As much as I'd like to pat myself on the back, I would say the second choice is more likely.

 

[cfdavid]

all i can suggest is going easy on the Indian food next time....

 

[urge]

Isn't this just a code pager that is going off?

I added the ob stuff after posting.

My bad.

 

[IlDestriero]

all i can suggest is going easy on the Indian food next time....

You guys and your weak stomach's make me laugh. I think my parents dragged me kicking and screaming weekly to every ethnic restaurant imaginable. It sucked as a kid (can't we just do Italian or Pizza like all my friends🙁), now I could probably digest rocks and small twigs. The next time you're in the local Thai place and they ask how spicy? just say Bangkok hot. Extra hot, extra bitter, see if you can make it through that meal. Your weak little colon will never be the same.
I wouldn't recommend trying this as take out when you're on call, unless you're a masochist.
Oh, and to answer your question, just go man, a crash is a crash. If someone comments on "some smell" you just say, "yeah, I hate OB, everything smells like bad indian food."😉

 

[sawthelight]

...or am I missing the movie analogy completely? 🙂

 

[countingdays]

The whole movie is a metaphor for an anesthesiologist taking a **** while on call. You need to watch it again.

I pretty sure it means driving with drugs in the car. Am I missing something?

 

[Apollyon]

"yeah, I hate OB, everything smells like bad indian food."😉

To some people, that smells like desire.

Veronica Corningstone: My God, what is that smell? Oh.
Brian Fantana: That's the smell of desire my lady.
Veronica Corningstone: God no, it smells like, like a used diaper... filled with... Indian food. Oh, excuse me.
Brian Fantana: You know, desire smells like that to some people
News Station Employee: What is that? Smells like a turd covered in burnt hair.
News Station Employee: Smells like Bigfoot's dick.