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AIBU?

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Original poster

to think that a&e waiting rooms should have seats that allow you to elevate injured limbs?

21 replies

MousyMouse · 27/02/2013 23:38

esp as the waiting times are so long?
or maybe conveyor belts or zip wires to get you to xray and back?

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ripsishere · 28/02/2013 05:54

or something like this to get you to the ward.

crashdoll · 28/02/2013 08:05

In both my local hospitals, x-ray is always miles from A&E and there are never any wheelchairs.

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MousyMouse · 28/02/2013 08:11

rip that's the spirit. :)

crash (what an appropriate name for this topic :o )
yes, afterwards you get painkillers thrown at and as many crutches you can carry and get wheeled to the taxi. but 'till then you have already hiked a couple of miles, been run over by a hospital bed, got lost because of rubbish signage, got dehydrated....

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Chattymummyhere · 28/02/2013 08:20

How about putting your arm in a sling or a make shift sling to hold it up..

WoollyEyedandWittering · 28/02/2013 08:23

HA! I was one of several people with a broken leg waiting around in the corridor because there were no seats available in fracture clinic!

ThreeWheelsGood · 28/02/2013 08:25

The lack of drinking water is a real bugbear. Both times my DP has suddenly gone to hospital with kidney stone pain he really needed a glug of water (one time when he eventually got some after 4 hours the pain stopped!).

Sirzy · 28/02/2013 08:32

Three did staff not provide water when he asked for it? If they didn't thats awful. whenever DS has been in A and E he has been provided with water and juice when we have asked.

RainyAfternoon · 28/02/2013 08:56

Just had a 7 hour wait in A&E - that's a whole working day! I think there should be spa treatments available so you can use those 7 hours productively and come out with the unbroken bits waxed, polished, massaged... Oh and decent coffee and cake as well, and maybe some classical music in the background to soothe...

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 28/02/2013 08:59

They need internet stations with links to MN so we could get second opinions from the amateur doctors here Grin

RainyAfternoon · 28/02/2013 09:13

Brilliant Fanjo! Oh the irony of managing to arrange short notice childcare and get a whole 7 hours to yourself - but with nothing useful to do! (memory of intense pain obvs now subsided!)

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 28/02/2013 09:14

Hope you are ok :)

mrsjay · 28/02/2013 09:18

yanbu dd broke her foot last year was punte out of her big wheelchair and put on a fixed to the floor seat while she was waiting to be seen had to hobble to xray then back again then sit on the seat only time it was elevated was when she was on the xray table oh and then they said keep your foot elevated Hmm

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MousyMouse · 28/02/2013 09:18

oh dear rainy hope you are ok.
nothing broken for me, just stiff and painful. took 'only' 4 hours.
those horrible chickenwire chairs don't help either.

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RainyAfternoon · 28/02/2013 09:19

Yes thanks fanjo if that was directed to me - broken wrist all pinned and mending now. Is wooly's leg fixed?

wonkylegs · 28/02/2013 09:22

I spend a lot of time in hospital waiting rooms (not a&e thankfully) and ours does have wifi connections but a distinct lack of suitable seating & natural light Sad
There is a separate X-ray department in MSU so thankfully I rarely have to trek down to main x ray.
You can tell we are all long term patients as we all arrive brandishing books & kindles. I have an appointment today & look forward to making headway in my latest book.

Seeline · 28/02/2013 09:24

there are never enough seats at all in our A&E - let alone specially adapted ones for specialist injuries Angry

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 28/02/2013 09:26

Rainy..it was..but hope everyone is ok too :)

NorbertDentressangle · 28/02/2013 09:33

When I went to A&E with a broken ankle they gave me a wheelchair (well, pointed me in the direction of one which I then had to suss out how to get the bit to stick out to elevate my leg on).

However you then get sent through to another pokey little waiting area where I lost track of how many times patients and their family/friends knocked my broken ankle when they walked past. Er...hello...I'm not sitting in a wheelchair with my leg stuck out in front of me for a laugh you know!!

Surely, if you know you're going to have people with broken limbs stuck out at weird angles you don't make them all wait in a cupboard!

Tolly81 · 28/02/2013 09:38

I actually think YABU and you'd know this if you'd ever worked in A&E. Basically the place fills up with drunks and weirdos who think a trip to casualty is a fun day out as it is. If you put seats in the waiting room where you could essentially put your feet up then a) it would mean less room for peoria to sit down and b) the people with injured limbs wouldn't get to sit in the seats anyway as there'd be a drunk/chav/weirdo asleep in it. These are not people who would offer your seat on the bus so I think it's safe to say many of them wouldn't let you sit down here either.

TomDaleysTrunks · 28/02/2013 09:41

In the A&E I work in, people steal stools for elevating limbs or throw them around the WR so we don't have them. It's rubbish. We've also had people trying to nick wheelchairs!

WoollyEyedandWittering · 28/02/2013 10:05

Yes leg fixed now - thanks for asking! It's been grumbling at this very cold weather though Smile

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