Occupational accident

[admiral_t]

I heparinised my right index finger at work last night. I shattered an ampoule of heparin causing a 4 mm X 3 mm shard of glass to lodge itself in my finger. It took about 2 hours to stop bleeding.

If you are an Australian taxpayer you paid for my bandaids :)

Comments

[nephron]

We've been warned so many times about ampoules breaking, but I'd never seen it happen.

I was beginning to think it was a myth.

Also, lol, you had heparin in your cut (sorry).

[ext_3201]

(All my sentences these days are starting with this.)

While I was in Queensland, I started to get the hang of it but Dr Hussein kept telling me to do it with more force, faster harder sooner stronger. I was too worried about it breaking, too.

Also, I bet it did not hurt as much as all the people below think it did.

[nephron]

Probably a bit painful, but more annoying (with the bandaids, and the constantly bleeding and such)

You didn't have the hang of opening ampoules?

[ext_3201]

Never done it before. Have now. Getting better at real clinical stuff.

[nephron]

I forget that med students don't get real clinical stuff until later in the course.