I hate Hollywood Medicine
Being a nurse, I simply CANNOT enjoy movies that have impossible or highly improbable medical shit.
I just watched Million Dollar Baby with my mouth hanging open in horror of the display of medical care.
1. Nobody, I mean NOBODY that is trached would EVER be trasported via ambulance if the trip was longer than a half hour to 45 minutes.
2. It's highly unlikely that someone would be able to talk over their ventilator. You are receiving air BELOW the vocal cords, and the air is forced back out the same hole by the vent. And YES, I remember Christopher Reeve, but he had special expensive devices that his body wouldn't tolerate until he was accustomed to being vented for a VERY long time...we're not talking a few days here, people. Plus, you can't learn that fast to talk over a trach!
3. It is so improbable to get a pressure ulcer on the back of your forearm or on the side of your leg (where you aren't even applying pressure, by the way!!!). Boney prominences are the areas of pressure-related ulcer development.
Don't tell me that she developed ulcers in those places from not moving!! Where the hell are her nurses or aides anyway?? They should be turning her every two hours; it's not that hard. I turn obese people by myself all the time...what, the staff can't turn a 120-pound woman??
Unless they were venous ulcers (which wouldn't make sense), she wouldn't be getting ulcers in those locations.
By the way, I even work in a NEUROLOGY ICU!! I take care of patients with C1-C2 injuries all the time, so I'm not completely clueless!!
This is one reason I don't watch "E.R." Hollywood poorly displays the field of medicine. It's all horse shit.
I just watched Million Dollar Baby with my mouth hanging open in horror of the display of medical care.
1. Nobody, I mean NOBODY that is trached would EVER be trasported via ambulance if the trip was longer than a half hour to 45 minutes.
2. It's highly unlikely that someone would be able to talk over their ventilator. You are receiving air BELOW the vocal cords, and the air is forced back out the same hole by the vent. And YES, I remember Christopher Reeve, but he had special expensive devices that his body wouldn't tolerate until he was accustomed to being vented for a VERY long time...we're not talking a few days here, people. Plus, you can't learn that fast to talk over a trach!
3. It is so improbable to get a pressure ulcer on the back of your forearm or on the side of your leg (where you aren't even applying pressure, by the way!!!). Boney prominences are the areas of pressure-related ulcer development.
Don't tell me that she developed ulcers in those places from not moving!! Where the hell are her nurses or aides anyway?? They should be turning her every two hours; it's not that hard. I turn obese people by myself all the time...what, the staff can't turn a 120-pound woman??
Unless they were venous ulcers (which wouldn't make sense), she wouldn't be getting ulcers in those locations.
By the way, I even work in a NEUROLOGY ICU!! I take care of patients with C1-C2 injuries all the time, so I'm not completely clueless!!
This is one reason I don't watch "E.R." Hollywood poorly displays the field of medicine. It's all horse shit.