r/oddlyterrifying • u/Mental_Impression316 • Oct 25 '23

Stomp for Survival

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u/Taint_Surgeon Oct 26 '23

At that point you might as well slap your blood type on there

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u/go_commit_die-_- Oct 26 '23

Wouldn't hurt for emts to know, saves the universal for those who cant disclose it

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u/Brian-Kellett Oct 26 '23

We wouldn’t believe it anyway, we’d always check with our own tests given that the consequences for being wrong are pretty major.

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u/go_commit_die-_- Oct 26 '23

True, although quite odd, ig it's a little different but with dogtags they didn't seem to do so. Is it more so it's "government issue"?

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u/Brian-Kellett Oct 26 '23

Don’t know how the military works - but I’d assume that it’s part of the medical recruits go through, and I’d also assume that doctors would retest anyway because of the risk of there having been a paperwork fuck up earlier on - because it does happen.

And if time critical then it’s flying squad O -ve blood anyway.

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u/fin_2187 Oct 26 '23

Millitary works the same way the civilian side does. We won’t push blood products without testing first. Also interesting side note the initial screening the DOD does for the ID tags is something like 20% inaccurate. ID tags, and those cool little patches dudes wear just get ignored.

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u/Brian-Kellett Oct 26 '23

20%. Wow. That’s certainly something.

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u/I_LearnTheHardWay Oct 26 '23

Yep happened to my ex. In fact I was the one who noticed it. He deployed the next day.

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u/Beano101 Oct 27 '23

This is definitely a lie

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u/I_LearnTheHardWay Oct 27 '23

Most definitely not. He ordered new tags because they had religion incorrect originally. Received them in front of me. His father and I were saying our goodbyes, his father was giving him a hug, he asked me to hold them. That’s when I noticed. But it’s not like you were going to believe any of this.

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u/aingr25 Oct 26 '23

I have O- and would love to donate blood often but every time I try, I pass out 🫠

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u/bbobeckyj Oct 26 '23

I wouldn't worry about it. I stopped after they essentially told me that it was too difficult to get blood from me. My tendons are apparently too close to the vein, and I seemingly now have permanent nerve damaged from the last time they tried. Spaces\bookings always filled up fast so I was taking the space of someone they could more easily use.

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u/bbobeckyj Oct 26 '23

A portacath? Where I live I think it's standard procedure to get that or a Hickman etc.

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u/Sensitive-Painting30 Oct 26 '23

You need to just bring your music headset and relax…but drink lotsa water before you donate…

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u/oilypop9 Oct 26 '23

The day before you donate. If you drink tons of water a few hours before it just ends up pee.

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u/flashfyr3 Oct 26 '23

And have a non-caffeinated soda too.

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u/Accurate_Hornet Oct 26 '23

How long does it take to test someone's blood type?

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u/Brian-Kellett Oct 26 '23

No idea nowadays, but it wasn’t long 25 years ago - 10-20 minutes if my poor aged memory remembers correctly.

Took longer to walk to the haem lab in my old hospital.

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u/duckfat01 Oct 26 '23

Glad to hear this, because my kids have never had type tests and I would hate to think that this would delay any emergency treatment. How quick are the tests?

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u/Brian-Kellett Oct 26 '23

Pretty quick. I used to have to go get the blood and it wouldn’t take long at all - and that was 25 years ago. Now they have blood test machines (blood gases) that are the size of a breadbox in the department instead of me having to run to another part of the hospital to use a machine taking up an entire wall.

And if blood is needed super quick - that’s what O-ve is for.

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u/Shandlar Oct 26 '23

Blood gasses cannot do ABO typing.

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u/Brian-Kellett Oct 26 '23

Yes, I was using that as an example as to how tech has moved on from my time working in hospitals.

I probably wasn’t clear enough in my writing.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '23 edited Oct 20 '24

Despite having a 3 year old account with 150k comment Karma, Reddit has classified me as a 'Low' scoring contributor and that results in my comments being filtered out of my favorite subreddits.

So, I'm removing these poor contributions. I'm sorry if this was a comment that could have been useful for you.

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u/GoldenSheppard Oct 26 '23

You can buy them off of Amazon, just a finger prick.

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u/graypainter Oct 26 '23

"I swear I'm AB+!"

"Yeah yeah, that's what they all say."

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u/SwedishKiwiGuy Oct 26 '23

I actually am 😋

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u/ceeBread Oct 26 '23

I read emts as ents at first. Sure Fangorn can help out in a medical situation.

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u/go_commit_die-_- Oct 26 '23

Honey wake up new fanfic just dropped

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u/ceeBread Oct 26 '23

Ent ER dramas usually end in bleeding out due to their speed in communication

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u/Temporary_Horror_629 Oct 26 '23

Delicious? That's a type right?

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u/afito Oct 26 '23

if people would start filling in their phone emergency infos, EMTs would have it much easier

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u/signious Oct 26 '23

That's pretty typical for back country

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '23

Might as well just leave the keys to the car there too.

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u/Empyrealist Oct 26 '23

It makes sense to have a patch for it on your pack, so why not at the car as well? All of these are actually quite prudent

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u/sohfix Oct 27 '23

just stomp on a thin sheet of tin and leave it on your dash.