Salient Quips- From the Surgeon’s Lips
“Taken out of context- and without knowing the people in the discussion- the quotes themselves are intriguingly odd and non-sequitror.”
Editor’s Note:
Over the past few weeks I have been collecting a few odd catch phrases or comments being tossed around during the course of open-heart surgery.
Taken out of context- and without knowing the people in the discussion- the quotes themselves are intriguingly odd and non-sequitror. But they are appropriately funny or relevant in the moment- so I thought I would share some of them..
Feel free to leave a comment or two of the humorous or outrageous things that are bantered during the day @ your hospitals 🙂
“He called me Che- ”
(as in Che Guevara- during some sort of Left v. Right in-depth discussion- IMA take down)
“Can I Pull The Tubes?”
(Dr. V- when pulling out the aortic line.)
“We have flow so we can sew”
(after placing a 2.5 shunt in the LAD on an opcab)
“Are you gonna stick around to blow the circ? ”
(OpCab & CO2 flushing)
“Flush her out!”
(Dr. V- asking for a hot shot)
“If there’s an ounce of papavarine in the hospital… “
(on re-op while taking down the IMA- re; papavarine shortage)
Perfusion: “This music makes me want to shoot myself…”
Anesthesia: “Turn it up !”
Band: Trampled by Turtles
“Blowers up- That’s all I really care about”
(middle of an aortic root repair)
“Get out of him.”
(Come off bypass)
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I loved “get out of him”…reminds me of “the exorcist” (1973)…!!!
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FaceBook Responses
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Huhtikuuta Joan
Haha “turn it up!” I think that scenario has occurred in my OR
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Harinder Singh Bedi
“Burn me , nurse“ – asking her to touch the cautery to my forceps !!
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Thomas Mathew
There are several, “Touch me, sister” you tell the nurse when both your hands are holding forceps and she asks you “Where?“
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Thomas Mathew
Sister says “Thomas, I think your pick up is gone.“
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Jaipur Vascular
“What would life be without humor in uniform“
