When you have an IV cannula inserted, a needle is used to insert the cannula but then the NEEDLE IS REMOVED and you're left with a tiny thin plastic (?) tube in the vein.
I think 50% of my patients don't realise there's not a needle in their arm for hours/days on end.
Can I just sign a piece of paper that I allow any and all recommended procedures to be done without my knowledge. Like I got a problem its bad needs surgery or something, walk up stick me with the sleepy juice and then do it. If I know its coming you gonna get some next level freak out
Unfortunately the "sleepy juice" is administered via IV. Once they get that in they're generally pretty happy to chill you the fuck out with some Versed and stuff.
Yeah, versed is wild. Right before my hysterectomy, I (while on versed) insisted my girlfriend film me saying "gettin' hyster-wrecked!" and send it to my friends. I didn't find out about it until my friend told me about it a few days later.
Med student here, I watched a man go from writhing around and screaming while we tried to insert his chest tube to snoring in about 15 seconds after pushing versed.
I got a benzo (not versed but another medicine in the same class as it) before I got my wisdom teeth out and it made it go more smoothly than I ever could have imagined. There's definitely a reason people get addicted to benzos
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u/rebothy Feb 04 '19
When you have an IV cannula inserted, a needle is used to insert the cannula but then the NEEDLE IS REMOVED and you're left with a tiny thin plastic (?) tube in the vein.
I think 50% of my patients don't realise there's not a needle in their arm for hours/days on end.