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sisabetSo I just got out of the most painful medical training I have ever attended. Lower Extremities and all that can happen and go wrong and then the treatment needed and prognosis and just...OUCH!!!
Dudes - she got to Compartmental Syndrome and started walking us through slides of a fasciotomy and describing how she had a guy on the table in the ER and they started cutting on his leg without anesthsia, to relieve the pressure and he thanked them for it! *That* is how bad the pain was. And I am telling you all about this because if I have to sit here and be grossed out and kinda concerned every time my calf cramps, so do you.
Of course then I started thinking about what a great injury compartmental syndrome would be in a fic -- expecially if the person in question is, I don't know, on an away mission and too far from the Stargate when the injury takes place. Cause - DAMN - that is drama. Also nasty nasty implications cause you have to leave it open and we are talking granular scars. Seriously - my notes? Beside the CS stuff? In the margins I have in big capital letters: NEVER GET THIS!!!! Which means, of course, I just cannot wait until it happens to a BSO.
But if it is me? Grab the tent Keeneland uses whenever a horse falls in a race and just take care of me quickly. All I ask.
But if anyone is interested in the cause and treatment of Compartmental Syndrome - I am more than willing to share, here.
ETA: Oh yeah and in reading my notes, it appears that I want Darien to suffer from a Lisfranc midfoot fracture because it is sometimes referred to as an "amputation fracture" (only because that was the only method of treatment, like, 300 years ago) and I think it would be funny if he overheard it called that and started freaking out! Right? Funny!
Dudes - she got to Compartmental Syndrome and started walking us through slides of a fasciotomy and describing how she had a guy on the table in the ER and they started cutting on his leg without anesthsia, to relieve the pressure and he thanked them for it! *That* is how bad the pain was. And I am telling you all about this because if I have to sit here and be grossed out and kinda concerned every time my calf cramps, so do you.
Of course then I started thinking about what a great injury compartmental syndrome would be in a fic -- expecially if the person in question is, I don't know, on an away mission and too far from the Stargate when the injury takes place. Cause - DAMN - that is drama. Also nasty nasty implications cause you have to leave it open and we are talking granular scars. Seriously - my notes? Beside the CS stuff? In the margins I have in big capital letters: NEVER GET THIS!!!! Which means, of course, I just cannot wait until it happens to a BSO.
But if it is me? Grab the tent Keeneland uses whenever a horse falls in a race and just take care of me quickly. All I ask.
But if anyone is interested in the cause and treatment of Compartmental Syndrome - I am more than willing to share, here.
ETA: Oh yeah and in reading my notes, it appears that I want Darien to suffer from a Lisfranc midfoot fracture because it is sometimes referred to as an "amputation fracture" (only because that was the only method of treatment, like, 300 years ago) and I think it would be funny if he overheard it called that and started freaking out! Right? Funny!
