Strapples
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30 Dec 2007, 12:16 pm
The most annoying beeping sounds are the IV machines. They only have a short battery life, so when they're not plugged into the wall (like when you are out of your room), they start to beep after like ten minutes. My mom once started pushing random buttons to try to shut it up, until a nurse stopped her.
I am fascinated with the machines, but will do ANYTHING to stop the beeping noise. I've turned off machines, removed IVs...
I am a horrible patient, and a worse patient's mother.
hehe... what i do on a lot of the machines is go randomly on the buttons until i find alarm mute... now i know the monitors at childrens memorial so well you could ask me "how do i mute it" and id have that thing muted up in seconds...
IV PUMPS SUCK!! ! THOSE BEEPING THINGS ARE HORRID!! ! at least a vitals monitor isnt as annoying,... still semi-annoying
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30 Dec 2007, 4:48 pm
1. When you were in the hospital did you have a strong fascination/interest in your patient monitor?
2. If it were on an articulating arm did you pull it up to where you could see it? (If there was no articulating arm answer 2A.)
2A. If it had an articulating arm would you have pulled it up to where you could see it?
3. What were your main reasons you were fascinated/interested in it?
4. Was there any sensory aspect to the interest?
5. Do you believe that it was an imprinted thing with you?
1. When you were in the hospital did you have a strong fascination/interest in your patient monitor?
I'm highly interested in EKG monitors, yes, and I can entertain myself for hours visiting someone in the hospital as long as they are hooked up to cardiac telemmetry equipment.
2. If it were on an articulating arm did you pull it up to where you could see it? (If there was no articulating arm answer 2A.)
Yes, especially when it's my own, I have to see it.
2A. If it had an articulating arm would you have pulled it up to where you could see it?
Indeed.
3. What were your main reasons you were fascinated/interested in it?
I've been reading medical books for fun since I was a little kid. I love medicine.
4. Was there any sensory aspect to the interest?
Nope.
5. Do you believe that it was an imprinted thing with you?
Huh?
As for beeping IV machines, I turn them off (if they're mine). That gets the nursing staff's attention rather quickly. I tell them right out, "...and I will turn it off every time it beeps..." lol
i hate IV machines... i turn mine off all the time hehehe... i also like you like the cardiac telemetry system... my favorite being the EEG telemetry... im always in neurology ward when im in the hospital due to my seizures so whenever im in the hospital im on EEG telemetry...
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03 Jan 2008, 3:36 pm
1. When you were in the hospital did you have a strong fascination/interest in your patient monitor?
2. If it were on an articulating arm did you pull it up to where you could see it? (If there was no articulating arm answer 2A.)
2A. If it had an articulating arm would you have pulled it up to where you could see it?
3. What were your main reasons you were fascinated/interested in it?
4. Was there any sensory aspect to the interest?
5. Do you believe that it was an imprinted thing with you?
1. When you were in the hospital did you have a strong fascination/interest in your patient monitor?
I'm highly interested in EKG monitors, yes, and I can entertain myself for hours visiting someone in the hospital as long as they are hooked up to cardiac telemmetry equipment.
2. If it were on an articulating arm did you pull it up to where you could see it? (If there was no articulating arm answer 2A.)
Yes, especially when it's my own, I have to see it.
2A. If it had an articulating arm would you have pulled it up to where you could see it?
Indeed.
3. What were your main reasons you were fascinated/interested in it?
I've been reading medical books for fun since I was a little kid. I love medicine.
4. Was there any sensory aspect to the interest?
Nope.
5. Do you believe that it was an imprinted thing with you?
Huh?
As for beeping IV machines, I turn them off (if they're mine). That gets the nursing staff's attention rather quickly. I tell them right out, "...and I will turn it off every time it beeps..." lol
i hate IV machines... i turn mine off all the time hehehe... i also like you like the cardiac telemetry system... my favorite being the EEG telemetry... im always in neurology ward when im in the hospital due to my seizures so whenever im in the hospital im on EEG telemetry...
oh another one i find interesting is SPo2/Pulse Ox telemetry
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03 Jan 2008, 4:03 pm
IV alarms are always annoying... and those pain med alarms AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGG
pulse ox does not bother me, i am severely apneic anyways, i stop breathing suddenly all the time... i should probably have 24/7/365 pulse ox monitoring
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16 Mar 2008, 11:17 am
I was just in the hospital for a G-Tube insertion a few weeks ago. in the Pre-Op unit we had to wait for 2 hours so i decided to have them hook me up to the monitors and everything early hahahaha... my favorite of them is the blood pressure monitoring, takes a reading every 5 minutes...
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03 May 2008, 3:53 pm
forgot to ask this question... anyone oddly able to lower their heart rate while hooked up to all the equipment? kinda like a biofeedback type thingy
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03 May 2008, 4:38 pm
Strapples,
I have my own portable SpO2 monitor at work.
It's really cool, it has a print-out which I use when doing six-minute walk tests.
I only work with patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (emphysema, chronic asthma, chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis etc).
A lot of them have poor peripheral circulation so as soon as they start walking the SpO2 monitor doesn't work. So they're walking along with the monitor screaming because the readings are SpO2 = 0 and HR = 0.
Also, if they bend their finger the monitor doesn't work - it starts screaming again. The patients think it's hilarious .... ha ha ha, I'm not breathing and my heart's not beating ha ha ha
When I worked in the wards I regularly would press the mute button when the IV machine would start beeping. I'd press the nurse's call button so she/he could look after it.
Then one day I was visiting a friend who had a different IV machine - it was beeping away. The buttons were all in different places to the one I was used to. Being the experienced health professional I am, I pressed the mute button. WHOOPS. It was NOTthe mute button. It was the on/off button. 
Helen
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03 May 2008, 4:41 pm
I have my own portable SpO2 monitor at work.
It's really cool, it has a print-out which I use when doing six-minute walk tests.
I only work with patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (emphysema, chronic asthma, chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis etc).
A lot of them have poor peripheral circulation so as soon as they start walking the SpO2 monitor doesn't work. So they're walking along with the monitor screaming because the readings are SpO2 = 0 and HR = 0.
Also, if they bend their finger the monitor doesn't work - it starts screaming again. The patients think it's hilarious .... ha ha ha, I'm not breathing and my heart's not beating ha ha ha
When I worked in the wards I regularly would press the mute button when the IV machine would start beeping. I'd press the nurse's call button so she/he could look after it.
Then one day I was visiting a friend who had a different IV machine - it was beeping away. The buttons were all in different places to the one I was used to. Being the experienced health professional I am, I pressed the mute button. WHOOPS. It was NOTthe mute button. It was the on/off button.
Helen
The good thing with MOST IV lines is that they can be stopped for short periods without harm...
hopefully you turned it right back on and hopefully it didnt get deprogrammed... most hold their programming if shut off thanks to NVRAM...
i dont think its hilarious when a monitor is not working correctly... 0 SPo2 and 0 HR is not funny to me... it was a long time ago.. but now i just know something needs to be fixed.
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01 Feb 2010, 12:31 pm
i got my own ICU monitor
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Imbm-2jq4g[/youtube]
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04 Feb 2010, 12:47 pm
Hiya Strapples! 
Err, the beeping of these machines doesn't annoy me half as much as the hiss an oxygen mask makes when you're all drowsy and coming round from anaesthetic.....I was sort of interested in the machines, the clip-thingy on my fingure was strangley comfy, but in all honesty I was far too out of it to really be aware I was hooked up to all this stuff.....
I had an EEG test once, seeing all those lines on the screen was pretty fascinating, I remember thinking:
"This is my brain, on tv!! !"
Then I was worried they could work out what I was thinking from the wavy lines and decided to guard my thoughts, lol
05 Feb 2010, 2:45 am
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05 Feb 2010, 3:26 am
autism society of america (ASA) has a list of hospitals that are "Autism friendly" you should not die because you cant handle a hospital environment, seek out a hospital that is modified to accomodate auutistics
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