hospital in corrie

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So sally is ventilated but in a room on own - so no one watching her all the time, surely she should be in icu or hdu?!

And the dr came in to take her pulse - if she on ventilator doesn;t she have monitors?

I was thinking that, she'd be in ICU if on a ventilator, and they wouldn't need to take her pulse either.
My arterial line did my blood pressure and the clippy monitor things (technical term) does your pulse and sats.

It also amazes me that no one ever goes into a hospital ward on corrie. They always get a private room with a glass window through which a policeman can lurk before going in for questioning

Aha!

More inaccuracies to put on my list!

(Though when I've visited someone in an HDU they were in individual rooms: perhaps practice varies?)

Oh yes, and why did the doctor and the nurse both have to wear plastic aprons when she came round? And the nurse was wearing purple rubber gloves !

I mean, what on earth were they doing to poor Sally?

Is this going to be the next unfeasable story line?

I have been in my own room in ICU before, but you are hardly ever left alone, for a couple of minutes at most and you are constantly monitored from the desk, right outside the door.
Both HDU's I've been in have been small wards with a high staff/patient ratio, not left alone at all.

My dad was in Icu and hdu after his bypass and he was in a room on his own with a window from the corridor and everything.
What's wrong with purple rubber gloves. My hospital and gp has them they are latex free.

It was the fact that all they were doing was watching her wake up, ineedacleaner, although my first thought was "oooh, purple gloves, how pretty" , I then started wondering why they had to get covered up to watch someone wake up out of a coma???

Surely they weren't giving her a wash and brush up at that point????

Ah yeah ok sorry. Does seem bait over enthusiastic.

Think poor Sally must be barrier nursed (probably picked something up from that Frank).

The thing about corrie that really bugs me is the parking situation. There are never any cars parked the road. Unless Tina is about to get into hers or Dev is about to get into or like last night, Amber gets into hers. Do you think they have a massive underground car park?

does barrier nursing mean strict iso/protective iso? If so then why are kevin, carla and sophie allowed in to pick up infection/bring in infection so no sense there.

The taking the pulse thing I found most amusing.

did you have your own room in icu at shit-town netto?

Yep, own room with bullying nurse at shit town.
HDU there was a four bed ward though.

I always imagined you in an open icu own room is even worse to your story in my head. are all icu beds in shit town single rooms?

Barrier nursing means staff have to wear aprons and gloves but visitors don't. Unless she had something really grim then they would get to visit. Think they have them in side rooms so they don't have to pay extras to lie there looking sick.

I don't know if it was all own rooms, I didn't really see any of it other than the room I was in.
I had my own room on the cardiac ward there too, but that was because it was the only private room they could find and they were worried I had swine flu

I had swine flu before I got nits, glad I didn't have it when I had nits or feck knows where I would have ended up! Are you up for a cuppa tea? Could do with a debrief after yesterday :(

sand ah yes very true

Oooh yes, Costa at 2.30?

I will pick you up though. you are NOT driving.

I am
Actually, maybe it's not a good idea, my car doesn't like me atm.

no your lungs nits don't like your car.

Please. If you scrape it again then I would feel very bad. Go on. Plus I am better at parking than you I might have a nits attack if you don't let me drive, how guilty would you feel then eh? eh?

They only time they've been on a ward was when Sarah Louise had her baby

I hardly remember that, was that to show the age difference between her and the other patients maybe? Where the hell is she anyway, poor Sarah-Louise and Bethany have been dumped in Gails eyes for Max. Gail should go and visit S-L and stop being so annoying on my screen.

I like the bit where the neurologist walked in, looked at a file at the foot of the bed, and immediately diagnosed the need to wait for two hours for something even duller to happen.

Bethany will be coming back grown up soon - I'll put money on it