Doctors are revealing their craziest “You shouldn’t be alive” moment, and I’m surprised

Warning: This article contains references to suicide and graphic medical details.

Recently, we asked the medical professionals in the BuzzFeed community to tell us the craziest things they have witnessed about the survival of patients, and they revealed incredible moments that really made them think: “Are you alive?!” Here is the most shocking story:

Note: u/jonah_boy_03 extracts some responses from this reddit thread.

1.“We were the closest hospital, so they brought a civilian (I am a former Air Force doctor). His safety gear failed and he was 128 feet from the communication tower. It rained the night before, and he fell into a puddle of tall grass, lay flat on his back, concussion and whipping. He had no broken bones, but his brain covered his body.

“He spent a week in the hospital before he could move comfortably.”

– prpslydistract

2.“We had a patient coming in after mowing the grass. The patient said the lawn mower kicked something and hit him in the head. There wasn’t much thought and mowing the grass. A few hours later he still had a headache, so he came to the emergency room, so he cated his head and the whole nail was embedded in his brain.”

“He had minimal wear on his forehead and no nerve defects. He didn’t know. Everyone is absolutely stupid. ”

– luv_pup88

3.“We once received a patient who was bitten twice by a rattlesnake. He only arrived at the emergency ward three hours after being bitten. Then, to make the situation worse, we only got the right anti-venom within an hour of arrival.

– tbc-xtc

4.“I have a patient who has been blind from diabetes and has lost some toes, part of it. I checked my blood sugar, which is 45 (this is Canada, your normal range is 4 to 7); I rechecked it: 45. No symptoms of hyperglycemia. No insulin. He ended.”

“Most household blood glucose meters will not exceed 30. I’m with my coach nurse, who is clumsy. ”

– Matt Tserman

5.“Had a patient with an internal temp of 75 degrees Fahrenheit. He was drawn, but fully alert and oriented. He was found on a river embankment in the middle of winter. He had been lying there overnight before a dog walker found him. We didn’t believe the equipment when it told us 75 degrees, so we repeated with a rectal thermometer, a different rectal thermometer, and a rectal probe attached to the bedside and The Medi-therm system is consistent, and after several hours of heating, we have put its internal temperature up to 90 degrees.”

– Jujapee

6.“The other ‘f*ck you’re not dead’ patient is a person with a blood sugar of 1800. They don’t fall into a coma. Just a woman walks in and complains about abdominal pain.”

– Jujapee

7.“The guy with the cross bolt was lying in his mind. He was initially described as having an arrow in his head, which must be at first glance. But the angle that entered his mind was meaningless. It entered under the chin and exited from the top of his head. It was a nurse who thought he had to lie on the ground, to lie on that angle.

“So it must have been caused by self-creating from a cross aimed at his chin. The fly on the CT was shocking; it was this perfect round hole that migrated over his head. After the neurosurgery deleted it, the guy walked out of the ICU after the surgery and had no residual effect. He admitted it was a suicide attempt. Fortunately, the bolt had only one target point, not the hunting wide head that pierced his brain. ”

– Anonymous, 44, Alabama

8.“In 1978, when a man came in, I was an intern working in the Grand Rapids, complaining that the headache developed midway through the local marathon. I quickly identified the cause of his headache as a .22 calibur, a .22 calibur, which he showed up on the top of the skull. He finished the marathon in three hours.”

“This is a national story. He is called the Bullet Man.”

– Anonymous, 73, Oregon

9.“My mom is an intensive care nurse and said the weirdest thing she’s going through was a 15-minute conversation with a little old lady without a pulse. I remember, she said, the little old lady passed by the middle sentence. Just stopped.”

-dscottj

10.In addition to the hospice patients who have been ill for a long time, I also have some people who have reached their minds. There is also one-third of patients with heart disorders, with only 30 pulses at best. Sit up, that’s right. I was a new nurse at the time, which shocked me. Basically, my heart system was unresponsible and it was a messy event.

– It’s definitely not Yourwife

11.“There is a lady who has hemoglobin of 4. It should be at least 12 years old. She is whiter than the sheets. It’s really disturbing to see a living person.”

– It’s definitely not Yourwife

12.“I was a surgery at night. The critical trauma page came in. I rushed to Trauma Bay in the emergency room and a man in his 20s hit the head. Specifically, the guy ran around from the police, instead of going to prison, put the gun into the muzzle, put the gun in his mouth and triggered the trigger.

“His brain was taken away when we interjected. I called the neurosurgery for help and they said, ‘Nothing to do; he’ll die soon.’ Leaving a month later, saying goodbye to me.“

-Anonymous

13.Although I was still a student, I had a clinical placement at a large trauma hospital where they maintained a series of x-ray shots that you normally never see because the injury usually kills the patient immediately. The most interesting thing is that the jockey in a horse riding accident hits the pelvis, and this type of injury can also often cause your ward to rupture, which means your condition, which is a very quick person and will survive very quickly but will cause illness very quickly but will cause injuries very quickly and will cause injuries very quickly and will cause injuries very quickly and will cause injuries very quickly and will cause injuries. Lifespan is long enough, I don’t know if he recovers. ”

– cfniva

14.“Not me, but my mom was an emergency nurse right after college. The family crashed and there was no serious injury; they were just taken to the emergency room for evaluation. They had a child and my mom asked about their health etc. When asked about the baby being fed, the mom said, the mom said, ‘Juice. Just juice.

“This is something someone said to my mom in the mid-90s. I have zero thoughts about what happened to those people.”

-ACC144

15.“Back to my surgical days, I was a resident of my trauma spin. A very good young man came to EMS. He had been working at a factory work location (think 80 to 100 feet, trade, a little deal). About halfway up the way, when he heard the commotion overhead, someone shouting!” He was on the ladder, so he couldn’t do the head, but his head covered his neck.

“Hopefully I can upload my photos. It’s a 36cm/14” long wrench, but the non-yield end is a pointed pick-up axe-shaped tool – that’s what he embedded in him. It’s nicely fixed to the X-rays for the C3/c4 (middle of the neck). All of us are X-rays – too many metal models for the members of the members. The spinal surgeon rock star just decided to tie it out. Give some stitches, soft collar for a week and the guy got back to normal. ”

– Neurochickb

16.“I’m a sleep technique, I have a middle-aged patient who has oxygen all the way to the 40s and has lasted for a minute in the central apneas… He spends more time breathing while he’s asleep. No wonder he complains that he feels dead every day. I can’t believe it, so I tried a bunch of other oxygen volumes and different hands, and he’s not that low and he’s incredible.”

“Since then, I’ve seen worse. Recently, I had a patient who did not breathe for two minutes, breathed once or twice, stopped breathing, and the oxygen dropped to more than 30 percent. That was another emergency situation for CPAP. ”

– Where

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17.A young woman in her 30s suffered from a stroke. She condenses the large arteries on the basis of the brain, which can provide all the “primitive” functions such as breathing and consciousness. I discovered the day after the incident. This book, this book is a hopeless situation. She is dead. She is dead. The inguinal artery in the plastic tube, pierces it into the base of the brain, injecting the clot-damaged drug into the artery for about 12 hours (TPA, tissue activator).

“A month or so later, she sent me a beautiful card. Even after she had a stroke, her handwriting was better than mine, which bothered me, but I was so happy.”

– Michigander_from_oz

Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.

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