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Removing the IV would not be hard.
ET-tubes (used for ventilation) have an inflatable cuff that keep them in place and to seal off the lungs from aspirating vomit. They are not impossible to self remove without deflating but it would be very painful to do so.
https://www.radiologymasterclass.co.uk/tutorials/chest/chest_tubes/chest_xray_et_tubes_anatomy
The catheters used in hospital settings have a cuff that is inflated INSIDE the bladder after it is inserted so removing without deflating it first would be like pulling something the size of a walnut through 8" of urethra, passing through an S curve along the way.
https://www.suna.org/download/catheterInsertionMaleCCP.pdf
You decide if this guys story is credible or not.
You’re the only person who’s making sense about this person‘s claims. Thank you for speaking truth. I live in Arizona. And there are so many questions I have about his video, how the accident happened, and then what happened the hospital, and how he claims to have taken all those things out of his body. I just don’t see the credibility in this. There are a lot of lunatics in Arizona a bunch of meth heads, but he was very busy moving about when he was talking kept taking his hat off to show his cuts and stuff like that. Also he didn’t have an ID. Come on people why do people just want to believe anything that some idiot puts on the Internet
Thanks. I'm not even saying the guys lying - just pointing out the reasons why what he claims to have happened seem unlikely or, at the least, his recollection of what happened may be skewed because of a decreased level of consciousness after the accident either by injury, the effects of sedation or both.
Anyone on a vent is continuously monitored. Usually through glass walls or half walls, and the 1:2 nurse ratio seeing the same things on their computer monitors, as what is displayed via the actual monitors hooked to the patients.
They’re often times on pressure sensitive beds, that will alert anyone and everyone to movement.
If they’ve (the patient) had any sort of movement before, their wrists will be bound just enough so that they can move, but not reach the intubation tubing.
It’s possible that someone could take out their own IV. But removing other medical devices with no medical knowledge would be impossible.
So it’s extremely unlikely that someone “woke up” on computer-moduled sedation medication drips (more than one) plus BP cuffs, plus lower legs pumps, plus foley catheter, plus the more than likely pressure-sensitive bed that would have sent alerts off all through out the ward. The IV drips themselves start alerting when less than an hour is left of the remaining medication.
Dude may have been able to remove his intubation tube, but even that would take careful, specific thoughts and movement. That thing is taped to your face, for the specific purpose of it not being dislocated, or causing further damage.
Then there’s that whole issue with the Foley catheter. Unless ol dude knew what he was doing, his entire urinary tract is now fubar’d for life, probably along with his ability to form an erection.
I’m not in the medical field, have only witnessed family members who were on a vent, but seeing this guy getting traction anywhere with this story is worrisome.
Pulled a few IV's out myself, the hard part is getting it to stop bleeding without gauze or cloth i.e. ur fingers. Idk about catheters though, fuuuuuck that.
Check out the second link I put - it has a pretty good graphic for what catheters look like and where they are placed - imagine puling that through your pee-hole - yikes. They feel pretty damn uncomfortable being removed when they are deflated so I can;t even imagine the pain if removed while still inflated.
Bladder catheters do get pulled out. Usually causing urethral damage and a big bloody mess.
Usually by people that are combative and not coherent. My guess he was an asshole at the scene, maybe intoxicated, and he required restraining to assess him for life threatening injuries.
I heard somewhere for males you get about 5 catheters in ur life and your dickhole is perma-damaged / leaky. I have no idea, never had one. Hope i never do. Watched a guy in a homwless shelter cry in pain for days for a bladder issue, had the catheter / bag strapped to his knee and could not pee on his own. Sitting in a recliner croaking. It was fucked up. Poor fella. Scared the bejeezus outta me.
I thought yesterday just as you do. Some of his story makes sense in some scenarios, some doesn't and sounds like garbled memory. He lost me on the drugs that he said the nurses told him he was being given.