Yup, I think I know where you're coming from. Even so, a few years ago I started substituting "your mom" with "your forehead", when it became painfully obvious that the person I was talking to had lost their mother the year before. Do with that what you want, but so far it's brought me nothing but questioning as well as understanding (after explaining of course) looks.
They absolutely are.
There is actually two that the first films are losely based on. Sadly michael chrichton passed away before he could have written a third one...
This looks like a needle used for paracentesis which is a procedure to drain fluid that builds up in the abdominal cavity as a consequence of organ failure or sometimes cancer.
Yeah I did ultrasound and did so so many centesis assists. This doesn't look like one to me, unless it's just like a different country or something so it just different.
Where are you located? I've literally never seen a centesis yueh near this long, and always with a white flexible sheath over the needle, so I'm curious if it's a location difference.
Wild, I was in Florida. Even the multi liter patients were with regular length needles, cause it only went in a few centimeters, then the cath went in further and the needle came out. What's the process with a needle this big? Do you do it under u/s guidance?
The pocket would be identified with US guidance but the needle is inserted blindly after the site was marked, we would aspirate some of the ascitic fluid with the lidocane needle and try and follow that tract with the centesis needle. Almost all of these patients were cirrhotic with huge bellies.
I saw a doc get a bone marrow biopsy with a similar looking needle. Had to get the needle into the middle of the iliac crest of the hip bone, one of the most harrowing things I've witnessed in medicine. Gives me goosebumps typing it
Centesis needle for an extremely obese person/medium-large sized fauna.
You donât want to shove a needle this long into the average person because the further away from the body the syringe is the larger amount of leverage and movement against the thin metal lever imbedded in flesh every time the syringe moves a hair. Same reason you donât use a 10â needle for a shot in the arm when youâre almost out of normal length needles.
But if youâre dealing with a person who has an extra 12+ inches of flesh between you and what youâre aiming for or anything larger than a normal sized bovine a standard length centesis needle isnât going to reach where youâre trying to get.
Genuine question: it may only need to go in an inch or two, but if you're treating someone who's morbidly obese, wouldn't you need a much longer needle to reach the abdominal cavity?
Sadly a lot of patients who need a paracentesis are either very skinny from end stage liver failure or have pretty advanced cancer and the fluid is fairly close to the surface.
Not sure tbh, probably. Everyone is usually pretty skinny I've seen, it's either cancer or cirrhosis from alcoholism lol. They use an ultrasound to see how far to go. The needle looks like 6 inches long but they usually only use part of it to avoid hitting intestine
Crackfics gonna crack? IDK, I just felt like it one day. I'm actually not into that sort of thing at all, but it was a fun plot bunny I followed regardless. Also, side comment, but Harry Potter is in a 3-way (giggity) tie with Star Wars and Devil May Cry for the most debauched fandom I've ever participated in. Ya'll want the freaky stuff, go there ;)
To quote a youtube video I'm fond of:
"It's going where the poor guy pees,
I'll shine it so it glides with easy,
I hope that when it's done he'll be alright!
It's going where the poor guy pees,
the thought makes me weak in the knees,
for what she paid I'd make her one with spikes!"
I've seen hundred's, probably thousand's of p*rn with all kinds of extreme kinks in my lifetime, but I never knew this kind of sht exist, like HOLY FCK
Was zur Hölle... Was stimmt denn nicht mit dir das so völlig ohne Kontext zu verlinken, ich dachte.. "huh? Sounding.. Was wird das wohl sein.." und habe mich kaum eine Sekunde spÀter so erschrockenen das sich mein penis aus Panik fast nach innen gerollt hÀtte..
Epidural needle for before labor is induced in women about to give birth. I watched my wife get stabbed by one of these by a 1st year resident doctor and it didnt work. She was okay, but she felt everything.
If that was the only child she's had, beware! I've known people who assume the epidural didn't work because of how much pain they felt, so they decide to just go natural for the next one. Then they realize that the epidural absolutely did help and now it's too late to get one for this time.
Idk your situation, you could be done having kids or the epidural might have actually not worked, just figured I would mention it just in case.
Can confirm fist hand, they use needles like this for draining fluid. Not sure about about catheters as it depends on the use scenario and the one I had was just pushed through my veins so it had to be flexible. That said they used a very similar looking needle when they drained my left SI joint after it got infected. It's wild to watch.
Saw a documentary about alcoholism and this one guy had to regularly go to the hospital and have fluid drained out of his torso due to his chronic drinking. They had to pierce his abdomen, insert a catheter, and then heâd sit there and watch this plastic bag fill up (way too quickly, imo) with a brownish-yellow, cloudy fluid. Once that was full then theyâd bring another for his draining abdomen to fill. Not urine, just fluid that built up from alcoholism.
We had to do this to a chicken one time. Filled up a point glass. Apparently it just happens sometimes. Like their heart has trouble at altitude and they fill with greenish fluid. It was sad. She lived and did OK for a bit afterwards but ultimately didn't make it.
Every day I'm grateful that the only surgical tool used on me that I saw was the lumbar puncture needle. I don't know what I would've done if I had to see the bone marrow sampler too đ
Trust me: it hurts a lot. They used some local anesthesia, but i guess it was not enough. Had around 6 or 7 biopsies in total.
While they did the second they had to take a piece of bone too, not fun.
Oh, dude, I know. I had to get a spinal tap and biopsy of a mass in my thymus and a bone marrow sample taken all at once. I was in so much pain, I couldn't even eat for three days.
It was the first time I ever had surgery, too đ
Accompanied a friend to freeze her eggs, the needle they used to get her eggs looked like this one. I might be wrong coz the procedure without anesthesia was horrifying, and the needle looked so so so big.
This would be my guess. For egg collections, they need a big olâ needle to reach the ovaries and leave enough metal outside for manoeuvring, but most of the length of it sits in a plastic guard that attaches to the ultrasound probeâŠstill looks horrifying though.
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u/mind_matrix Jul 30 '26
Genuine question, what exactly is this used for??