Recently an unresponsive Hispanic female was brought in after a MVC to our trauma center. She was intubated and the normal trauma protocol was followed. We normally get routine pelvic Xraysin trauma. In this case, there was a very interesting finding. Forgive me that I don't know how to draw arrows...but if you look in the middle of the pelvic ring you will see something that looks like a ball of pebbles. At first I thought it was just hard stool. But the radiologist read it as unknown foreign bodies.
So when the patient got sicker and we couldn't figure out what was going on, the surgeons decided to see what exactly that possible foreign body was. Turned out it was about $10,000 dollars worth of cocaine stuffed inside of her. It was removed and IV antibiotics and time did the trick.
-ER Doc
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I have to ask , was she arrested afterwards?
If that isn't possesion ,I don't know what is. LOL
Wow. Now that there is quite an unsusal find.
Great case. And great find. Always harder to figure out a patient that is nonverbal. In a way, being in that MVC probably saved her life!
I'll be following.
The Detroit Lions are in desperate need of a "Wide Receiver", maybe...
holy crap...did she go to jail?
Re: the sewing needle male, Hispanic...years ago my great-aunt had the same thing!!! She had no idea when it went in (she was probably sewing while sitting in her rocker!) but it came out via surgery for "hip pain"!
what happened to the cocaine?
cocaine was turned over to the police. so was the patient
-er doc
And to think I was impressed by the gram a young lady pulled out of her vagina before we put a foley in. Even the cops were reluctant to take possession when we handed it over.
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