If it wasn’t a biohazard it would be perfect for Halloween October 31, 2007
Posted by keepbreathing in Coming to an ER near you, disgusting, life, respiratory therapists.trackback
In the course of doing my laundry today, I discovered that one of my new scrub tops has been covered in blood. I don’t know how I missed that yesterday or why nobody said to me “Hey dude your top’s covered in blood,” but I can only assume that it was busy and nobody really wanted to talk to blood-drenched guy.
I exaggerate, but the quantity is alarming. I suspect that it’s drippings from a lab draw I had to do yesterday in the ER…sometimes even when you pinch the tubing on the butterfly needle you can get a little leakage. Especially if you’re doing an arterial lab draw alone and you have to screw the damn syringes in by hand because using a Vacutainer on an artery is…well folks, it’s just not a good idea.
Anyway. I rubbed some stuff on the bloodstains and put it in the wash, and we’ll see how it comes out…but as the title says, if this top wasn’t a biohazard it would be a perfect costume for the evening’s festivities.
Happy Halloween, everybody. Remember: those razor blade stories are just urban legends designed by the media to propagate fear, so don’t waste the ER’s time by bringing in candy to be unless your jaw begins to bleed after you pop that tasty snickers. And to AJC up there in the Halloween Capitol Of The World, good luck with the weirdos tonight.
I am usually very successful getting out the blood. Cold water, some detergent.
Now, GI junk, that’s a different story altogether. Those, I just burn.
Hope you had a good Halloweeen!
It sounds like a case of life imitating art!