Medical things you didn’t know?

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Just watching a medical drama and wondered what happens if you die on the operating table? Do they just sew you back up without repairing anything inside?

but also had me thinking what other medical things didn’t you know until you maybe experienced them or learned?

Medical and a geography lesson in one! You're too good to us @SeaToSki 😁

JanetandJohn500

I hope your Dad's last days or hours are as peaceful as they can be.

Children have a cartilage instead of the type of kneecap adults have. Between the ages of 2 years and 6 years, it starts to deveop properly

I suppose mine is about fraternal twins. If a woman ovulates twice and has sex with two different men. There's a chance that the two eggs would be fertilised by sperm from each man therefore twins with different dad's. I think anyway

at the hospital where a relative died the ward had a 'rose room' where people were transferred to when death was imminent.

single room with enough space to allow for relatives to pay their respects.
(ironically the only room on the ward with a window that could be opened)

"rainbow bridge" is used sometimes in peads. But rose cottage is standard for most hospitals

I asked a GP friend how people were transferred from the ward to the morgue after they died.
She told me about special trolleys with a compartment below the normal mattress. Knowing these details helped me grieve.
I am also fascinated by what goes on in funeral homes. I wish I had never seen my Mum there. Whatever they did, she looked nothing like she did when she died.
How she looked when she died enabled me to accept it was her time to go.

I saw something on a TV series where they used a mirror in a certain way to make it seem the amputated hand is still there to trick the brain, so for instance you look at the mirror and do the “crack knuckles” with the other hand and you get relief.
It was a fictional series, but I believe this treatment does exist in real life.

Well that’s the last time I take any notice of what my scientific kids tell me.
Note to self….Google check everything they say before posting on MN
🤣🤣

Floor 19 (or one number higher than the total number of floors in the hospital) is what I’ve heard!

@givemushypeasachance wow that's a horrible thing to experience at such a young age. Poor you.

Vitamin D isn’t actually a vitamin, it’s a hormone!

I found this out via a police drama and I always have it in my head that if you ever kill someone and need to move the body you need to do it quickly otherwise this sets in and they can tell you’ve moved the body. Handy 😂

I’m a nurse (qualified under a year) and we’ve always opened the window after death.

We speak to patients as we’re doing everything after death and one of my colleagues always says something that is very true. ‘None of us come into this world alone, so none of us should go out of this world alone’ so even if we’re busy when we know someone is very close to death we will always try and sit in the room with them holding their hand for a bit.

also genuinely believe people won’t let go when surrounded by loved ones. Sometimes they hold on and hold on and you wonder how they’re still here days on and the moment their relative pops out the room for the loo or leaves they go.

the hardest ones I see are the ones with no next of kin, always makes me feel sad that no one is aware, I always give everyone’s hand a hold after finishing last offices and say rest well, or sleep tight before leaving the room

And so is insulin, so type 1 diabetics who inject insulin are in fact on hormone replacement therapy.

@Bogofftosomewherehot your family member did an amazing thing. It must be soooo hard to agree to donate organs for your loved one but as a family member of a recipient of a donor organ, we appreciate it so much. It’s such a beautiful thing to do for someone else.

Just googled our local trust and neither hospital has a ward 13! Well I never! I expect there must be some out there though.

I did know this from reading lots of crime fiction, it's usually quoted by the pathology and forensic people!

Thank you to the poster who said early I. The thread that nurses open windows to let the smell out. It was heart warming to read all the replies of nurses to say that actually they do do it to let the soul out.

I'm a convicted atheist but there is something very reassuring about knowing that nurses will do this little thing (and all the other things like talking to the recently deceased) that isn't clinically required just respect and care for their patient. I'm not expressing myself well but i find if very sweet.

My dad died on the operating table. I never asked though what happens.

This is not really medical more biological but I didn’t know until fairly recently that girls height stops when they start menstruating. (Still not sure if that is correct).

@Starsandrain Thank you and to other for your kind words. xxx

Her liver went to a teenager who we are in contact with. She sends us occasional updates. That made it so worthwhile - she worked with teenagers. Her kidneys went to 2 men.

The decision was relatively easy as I knew her wishes, the process however was harrowing, hence why I commented on the clumsy language of a PP.

I genuinely hope that your loved one lives a long and happy life and manage to stay well. x

This is not really medical more biological but I didn’t know until fairly recently that girls height stops when they start menstruating. (Still not sure if that is correct).

I'm pretty sure that's not correct @willWillSmithsmith

I started my periods at 13 and continued growing until I was much older when I reached 5ft 10. I definitely wasn't 5ft 10 at 13 years old.

Ditto my daughters. The older one has definitely continued growing and the youngest has just started her periods and is quite short (compared to the rest of us) so I hope she continues growing for a few years yet!!

Yeah I started my periods at 9... I'm 5ft 10!

@squirrel76 Thanks for that information about vaccines & the muscle at the top of the arm. I’ve only ever used Emla cream on the back of young people’s hands before, so this was a new one on me. Now I know it’s just a placebo effect I will pass that information on. It’s pointless to waste resources & it explains why the young person was fine when the vaccine went in anyway!

Same - started when I was 10 (was 5"9") and I'm 6" now.