I don't like blood

[MMiz]

In general I don't like blood, gore, and needles. This has never been a problem working in EMS though. As I was checking out that recent thread with trauma pictures I felt sick though. When reading my EMS book or seeing EMS slides I don't get that sick feeling though.

I've found that some people in EMS, like myself, also don't like blood and needles when not working a call. Twice a year we have to do a TB test, and I love watching some of the medics squirm.

Anyone else?

 

[rescuecpt]

I am fine when there's adrenaline pumping. I focus on the task at hand. Sometimes later I have nightmares once my mind's eye starts remembering the patient's injuries without the adrenaline and the need for action on my part.

I had a hard time with some of my OR clinicals, and I can't watch certain scenes on ER (chest cracking, for example). In the OR, I was fine with arthroscopic surgery and some other procedures (I saw a really cool turniqueted bloodless surgery..., and the removal of scar tissue from the pleural space including collapsing one lung at a time) - but the gastric by-pass made me a little queasy and I had to leave the room when they started sawing through bone in the hip replacement.

PS - I didn't look at the trauma pic thread. Why put myself through that?

 

[TTLWHKR]

Nope, the more blood the better. Traumaaaaaaaaa B)

 

[Ridryder911]

Hmm... It is not like I like blood or dislike.. can't see how you can be in this business or an active one and it can bother you. Usually, after a period of time, you bcome so accustomed to both. There are very few calls I don't see both....

As far a pics.. there is a difference in "gore" and education pics. Really not a fan of "gore" pics... not that it grosses me out.. (don't think I can be) But, rather inappropiate and you don't learn anything.. it appears someone is bragging about something.

Be safe,
R/R 911

 

[Wingnut]

Blood ang gore doesn't bother me at all. I don't go out looking for it but it really doesn't phase me. I used to assist in surgery when I worked for a vet and I think that's what desensitized me. The only thing that bothered me then was the smell of blood on the really messy surgery's but I got over that.

My husband rented one of the Faces of death video once, and I learned I can't watch someone die. Not in the manner they show at least, I had to make him turn it off. I was worried about that working in EMS, but when I did actually work a code and basically watched the guy die as I was doing CPR I found I go into work mode on the calls and I'm ok.

 

[ffemt8978]

As long as it's not mine, I don't have a problem with it.

 

[MedicPrincess]

Blood doesn't bother me. Pictures aren't so bad, I usually end up thinking something along the lines of Dude that sucked. Working in the ER, if we get an impressive injury I usually try to get a look at it and then I am trying to piece together their story of what happened vs. what their boo boo looks like.

Now, poop. That is enough to make my throw up reflex go into overdrive.

 

[MMiz]

At work I'm fine with anything... but vomit.

 

[Chimpie]

I go through spells. Sometimes nothing bothers me, sometimes just the thought of something will make my stomach turn.

I have always hated, however, seeing stuff in a non-emergency atmosphere, like regular doctors room or walkins. I get quezzy much easier then. Oh, and I can't watch surgery type shows. Slicing into perfect skins makes me want to change channels in a heartbeat.

Weird, I know.

 

[Stevo]

At work I'm fine with anything... but vomit.

me too....

what is it with some people? , they have to wait until we arrive? think they pay their taxes so it entitles them to puke on an emt? christ on a cracker, i know your sick, ya don't have to prove it ...

where does it say 'puke magnet' in our job 'script anyawys?

~S~

 

[TTLWHKR]

I keep a ziplock bag in my pocket with N95 masks in it, I rub grape chap stick on the inside so it covers any smells the mask doesn't, and I wear stlyish goggle type glasses on every patient, so I'm covered as far as smells go.

 

[SafetyPro2]

Blood doesn't bother me. Other fluids don't even bother me too much.

Odors, however, are another matter. I can deal with them, and I don't think I'm gonna ever be the one to puke myself, but I don't like 'em. I dread the day I end up on a decomp call (I've been lucky so far...we've had 'em, but I haven't been there).

The only time blood bothers me is with a kid. Kids in general are my weak point, especially if I know them. We had a kid at our church go into a seizure a couple weeks ago, and I was all too happy to hand off PT care to another EMT when they got there (though I did go in on the transport).

 

[Firechic]

I can't stand a 'code brown'. Other than that, I don't think much else really bothers me.

 

[FFEMT1764]

I am a sympathetic puker...you puke, im likely to puke with you...and really stinky dead people make me gag too....but thats about it, unless I am already sick and working, then just some stupid little things make me gag...prolly why i called in today and am going to the DR this afternoon....:wacko:

 

[coloradoemt]

The only thing that really bothers me sight wise is compound fractures to lower extrmities... B) Other than that I cannot stand the smell of spinal fluid or brain matter being baked onto very hot road surfaces... h34r:

 

[CodeSurfer]

I have been back and forth on this issue. Before I started working on the rig I thought I would be grossed out by everything, but I never did get grossed out. Even my sympathetic puking problem went away. But just since like a week ago... I have been grossed out by everything. I saw more disgusting abcesses drained in the last 2 months than ever and I didnt even flinch, but this last week a pt coughed with bad breath and I had to hold down my lunch. And the breath wasnt even week old... maybe a couple days. Am I losing it???? Eeek

 

[rescuecpt]

You might be a little bit sick or extra stressed - I tend to be more sensitive when either happen to me.

 

[ffemt8978]

Dare I say it?


Morning sickness?

 

[rescuecpt]

Dare I say it?


Morning sickness?

Why do guys ALWAYS say pregnancy? But for a guy, he probably was hungover or had a touch of something. I still think humans should be more like seahorses.

 

[MedicPrincess]

I still think humans should be more like seahorses.

AMEN Sister!!!

Best statement ever on this board!!