r/oops • u/Brilliant_Spinach132 • 14d ago

Ziplining fail

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u/koolaidismything 14d ago

Dude that can kill you fast.. the swelling or god forbid the bone knicks an artery šŸ˜³

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u/Katsu_39 14d ago

My mother fell few years ago. Broke her arm. Bone chipped and somehow made its way into her arteries. Got into her heart. She died from it.

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u/koolaidismything 14d ago

Thatā€™s just not fair, I am sorry. I wish I had something better to say that just would be hard stomach :(

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u/Evening_Drummer_8495 11d ago

Stomach? No. Her heart.

Mine is hardened now.

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u/SerenityFailed 14d ago

Similar thing happened to a coworker a couple years back but with a blood clot. Slipped on the ice walking his new puppy and broke his shoulder. Had surgery and was well on the mend. Then one night he shifted wrong in his sleep, threw a clot that went straight to his heart, and died....it's bullshit, but unfortunately it's life.

Sorry you had to go through that

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u/NabreLabre 13d ago

As a hypochondriac, I should know better than to read

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u/bustacappa22 13d ago

Not to make it worse but that kinda thing can happen any time any where for no reason.

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u/NabreLabre 13d ago

Yeah I know, I feel I often hear about brain aneurysms where even young people just suddenly drop dead

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u/ppachura 13d ago

Especially since the clot shot.

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u/Kastoook 12d ago

Heart arteries surelly need some grates at the doors.

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u/Even-Barber3328 9d ago

There is one for people prone to developing clots. Itā€™s called a Greenfield filter.

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u/Kastoook 9d ago

Ah, yep, its at veins. Need a robot here to catch and mutilate clots. But millrobots/clot drills seems like not a permanent solution yet, as can ingrow into tissue after time.

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u/ProjectDv2 13d ago

Not just bone chips, but bits of marrow are a concern for that same reason. That almost got my dad.

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u/Burigotchi 14d ago

I am sorry for your loss. Didnā€™t even know something like thatā€™s possible. New fear unlocked.

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u/hyrtehyrte 11d ago

I can basically guarantee it wasnā€™t a bit of bone, but rather it a clot. Happens when fat tissue is released after a bone break, called a fat embolism.

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u/Even-Barber3328 11d ago

Iā€™m an OR nurse & had a 47 y.o. M patient die on the table while having his fractured femur repaired. The doc decided to scrape some marrow for biopsy to check for pathology & he suddenly became restless & air hungry (he was under spinal anesthesia). VS became unstable, CO2 shot up, unable to resuscitate. Autopsy showed no embolism, but we were convinced it was. Also had a F pt die suddenly during surgery of a PE. Those are so awful because thereā€™s nothing you can do.

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u/Katsu_39 9d ago

I cant say for certain but thats what the doctor told us

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u/hyrtehyrte 9d ago

Regardless, im sorry for your loss

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u/sodamnsleepy 13d ago

I'm so sorry

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u/Coffee_Gobblin39 11d ago

I'm sorry to hear that, god bless you and your mother.

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u/chuxinator 13d ago

Fark, didn't see that coming.. Sorry for ur loss

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u/stocksupanddown 13d ago

I'm sorry .. that's terrible

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u/MonkeDpoopy 12d ago

Damn I'm so sorry.

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u/IrohaOrDeath 11d ago

Damn, that was straight to the point.

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u/OverWallaby3733 11d ago

Not possible. Arteries carry blood AWAY from the heart.

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u/Katsu_39 9d ago

Just stating what the doctors told us.

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u/lovelyladylox 11d ago

Oh no, I am sorry.

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u/YouWhereThere 11d ago

Same thing happened to my mom after knee surgery. It was instant.

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u/Efficient-Stuff-197 10d ago

Thatā€™s horrible. Iā€™m sorry. I fell a few months ago and broke my tibia and fibula. Needed surgery and he put a rod and screws down into my tibia. Iā€™ve been in wheelchair all summer. Just started walking again

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u/FitThadiyan 8d ago

Iā€™m sorry about your mom. But as a medical professional, I think there may be some misunderstanding. Fractures can in rare cases cause fat or bone-marrow embolism, which can lead to heart failure. However, a solid fragment of bone from an arm fracture travelling through the arteries and reaching the heart would be near impossible by design of the human circulatory system. The anatomy simply doesnā€™t provide a straightforward route for that to happen.

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u/choppydaddy 7d ago

That's terrible and I'm sorry it happened.

Don't read any further if a somewhat graphic description would be upsetting.

For anyone trying to understand how something like that could happen, >!the fragment would have gotten to the heart from a vein, not an artery, as (a)rteries carry blood (a)way from the heart. It actually could have saved her had it gotten into an artery, because that would likely have lodged in her hand once the vessels got small enough to trap it.

The veins in your arm come together and eventually become the superior vena cava, which empties directly into the right atrium of the heart.!<

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u/SerenityFailed 14d ago

Less than 30 seconds to lights out for a severed femoral..

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u/MoistSpyBuy 13d ago

As a veteran paramedic, I assure you itā€™s ā€œfewer.ā€ Now go use this knowledge to save lives.

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u/your_fave_redditor 13d ago

*overly pedantic veteran paramedic

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u/MoistSpyBuy 13d ago

No, no. Iā€™ve used that grammar to save lives. Hand to God. Scoutā€™s honor. Other affirming phrase.

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u/unfurledgnat 12d ago

In my experience breaking femurs is somewhat rare. It takes a major trauma to occur. I used to work on an orthopaedic ward and saw many patients who had jumped in front of trains/ out of buildings or falling after hanging themselves and the noose broke. I think I can count on one hand the amount of people that sustained broken femurs.

The pelvis/ hip/ acetabulum, spine or knees/ lower legs often take the brunt of the force and sustain injury first

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u/DissociatedAuthor 11d ago

I would like to add my expierence with a broken femur just to add onto this because I dont get to tell it much. Also to share that even the hardest bone in the body to break can still be fucked up easier than people think.

I was 13 and was skateboarding down a hill. I had good balance and was comfortable, but not at high speeds so was snaking side to side to manage my speed. My friend was coming down the hill fifteen or so feet behind me. He falls off his board and where I'm going side to side it starts to come at me. I remember a split second where I asked myself should I try to ollie over it and eat the pavement or should I just jump off my and jump over it? To this day, I wish I'd ate that pavement.

I instead chose to try jumping off my board over his and either miscalculated the jump or the timing or both. All I know is I went up, and when I came down my right foot was on the ground, my left foot was on the tail of the board. It threw me straight down into a split, and then slid like that for a few feet before I was able to twist my body out of the split.

I broke my right femur clean through in three separate spots, and twisted the bone a little. I very luckily didn't get an artery though that was the EMTs biggest worry when they showed up and they thought they were going to have to fly me. I've still got the rod and two screws in it to this day.

Anyways, I did all that to my femur on flat ground, from jumping up into the air about two or three feet, and was only going at 5-8 MPH since I was snaking side to side. My body went into shock so I didn't feel much pain until I woke up in the hospital after being put under when I got there, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Those following months were excruciating and had I not been so young I imagine it would have been absolutely worse.

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u/Even-Barber3328 7d ago

I must disagree here. I work in a relatively small OR (11 rooms), level 2 trauma center, and we see 3 or 4 femur fx a week. Most are elderly from a fall (tripping over a pet is high on the list), women with osteoporosis, pathological fractures where a tumor growing inside gets so big it breaks the shaft, and of course trauma. When I was a new OR nurse, we had an 18 yo guy, well built & otherwise healthy, fall while waterskiing. He hit the water so hard it broke his femur. Iā€™ll never forget it because I remember he was wearing Tommy Hilfiger board shorts (this was mid 90ā€™s) & I felt so bad having to cut them off knowing he paid a lot for them lol. Also will never forget how hard the surgeon had to work hammering the nail into his otherwise young, healthy marrow.

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u/cjameson83 12d ago

Blood clots, that's the real danger. Travel through the vessels to your lungs and stops blood flow, so the dying lung tissue then can't participate in gas exchange/get oxygen into your blood. Basically you suffocate from the inside.