InsidiousStealth
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Soooo Get toned out for a 19 y/o male construction worker at the train station for "numbness in legs" so of course we thought he was just trying to get out of work. Show up there and he has no sensation or motor activity in his legs.
So I begin my assessment, headaches, chest pain, SOB etc abdo pain none of that, so then focus on the c/c and I rub my pen on both his legs doesnt feel it. can't move his legs, then I took my pen and squeezed it as hard as i could on his nail bed on his foot and doesn't feel it. He's smiling and seeming casual and unworried so whatever we transported him.
Anyhow so after we dropped him off and we came back after with another patient the nurses told us that he had something called a "spontaneous epidural lumbar hemothorax" or something like that and had to be transferred stat to another hospital for emergency surgery. So you never know! He seemed healthy but i guess he was working in confined spaces all the time underneath the train station platform and probably caused it that way....Very strange and rare too apparently
So I begin my assessment, headaches, chest pain, SOB etc abdo pain none of that, so then focus on the c/c and I rub my pen on both his legs doesnt feel it. can't move his legs, then I took my pen and squeezed it as hard as i could on his nail bed on his foot and doesn't feel it. He's smiling and seeming casual and unworried so whatever we transported him.
Anyhow so after we dropped him off and we came back after with another patient the nurses told us that he had something called a "spontaneous epidural lumbar hemothorax" or something like that and had to be transferred stat to another hospital for emergency surgery. So you never know! He seemed healthy but i guess he was working in confined spaces all the time underneath the train station platform and probably caused it that way....Very strange and rare too apparently