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Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate! (lemmy.world)
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[–] 8 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Afterwards the patients walk around like zombies for many hours and it is incredibly unfun to witness.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    um. yeah. they do that after regular surgery too. a shitton of sedatives will do that. ect is also associated with temporary memory loss but it wears off just as quick as with a regular seizure, a little faster even. Also every time I've been in the procedure room for it the most that happens is the person's feet wiggle a little for a few seconds?

    idk maybe it's just that I've seen way more terrifying medical shit done when I was sitting suicide watch in the ICU (I'm a DNR after seeing what it takes to keep someone alive at the brink of death) but it was like the least unsettling thing I've seen in a procedure room. In my OR clinical rotation the surgeon was literally HAMMERING that Lady's titanium hip into place for 6 hours.

    Shit sounded like a dwarven mine in a fantasy movie just DING DING DING with a fucking hammer in a sliced open little old lady for 6 hours straight. THAT was disturbing. Feet wiggling for a few seconds is nothing. especially not when you see it bring someone back from catatonia so deep they can't eat.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    If you're willing to share, I would be interested in hearing your reasoning for a DNR if it's outside of the typical cases (terminal, elderly, etc.). I don't know a ton about what all they do to resuscitate beyond CPR/AED (when necessary) and possibly general life support measures

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly it's not even the CPR that particularly bothers me, it's the intubation and the stuff after. I've worked with so many patients who don't have a lot of working neural tissue left and their family just has them medically tortured for years because they want to see them blink occasionally. Next time I update my documents I think I'm going to add that if my family wants something to happen to me that I have to be held down for, they have to be in the room. If they can't stand to watch / listen to me while it happens, they've no right signing off on it.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    A hard reboot will do that to ya.

    What kind of conditions is electro therapy used to treat?

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Not the original commenter, but my understanding is that it's used for severe depression when other treatments have been unsuccessful, so sort of a last resort. And apparently it's fairly effective iirc, especially when compared to other treatment options (e.g., antidepressants).

    I'm curious as to whether having a seizure disorder would correlate with lower depression rates, or if electroshock-induced seizures may lead to higher chances of having non-induced seizures in the future.

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