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September 24, 2007 |
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Heart Receipt
FOUND by Colin
in Canton, Michigan
I work valet at the U of M hospital. I found this in the parking lot of the emergency room. I'm pretty sure it came from an ambulance. Haven't seen one before or since.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
this clearly shows the patient was lying
this is really beautiful.
Get me a CBC, Chem 7...STAT !
( I've just always wanted to say that. This seemed like an appropo time to do so.)
Very "heartening" find.
They make ambulances use valet parking?
The picture is a little small, but it looks like atrial flutter. Yes, it's probably from an ambulance. Hope the patient was OK, probably just needed some cardiazem.
I've used that valet recently. And no, the ambulances don't use valet, but they use that lot entrance and are nearby the valet station. Everyother car that comes into the lot is valet parked which is a really nice feature
what a fascinating find. just out of curiosity, how can you tell which little blip is the one that says atrial flutter?
It goes 'boom boody boom boody boom boody boom boody
boom boody boom boody bu - oom boom'
(Well goodness gracious me)
i had a similar one while in labor with my oldest kid...they used it to record my contractions and mine & the baby's heartbeats. by the end of the day it was miles long...lol i have pictures of my MIL (a nurse) sitting at the table in the labor/delivery room, looking at it.
julse: i had to google kool-aid pie after reading your name. my kids will love it! thanks for the idea^^
HAHAHAHA Jonanthan! Does Ms Loren have a heart murmur or is that your big bassoon?
Lame find. Creepy too. The only way the comment page will get past 40 today will be if someone stirs it up a bit. Bring it on Herve, SALT, Unworthy, sand SOMEBODY!
I'm with you Pepper. This find is wicked boring. Very disappointing.
(sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays)
Patience, Pepper.
Tucker, have you been subjected to one too many polygraph test?
Where's that nerdy med school student? He could shed some light on this Find.
This patient has a very weak and thready rhythm (top), a ventricular fibrillation (middle) and tachycardia (bottom).
Most likely an aged patient with a history of hypertension or heart disease.
P.S.-(not a nerdy med student, just a science geek)
Well, I like this find. Things like this are usually not floating around out there. Part of the allure of a find is wondering the story behind it. Who was this person? Why did someone call an ambulance? Are they okay now, or was this their last trip to valet parking?
a ventricular fibrillation is a fatal arrythmia, thank goodness for this patient, this is not it. This is three leads of a 12 lead ECG, all the same person at the same time. It looks at the heart's electrical impluses from 3 different directions. We often use them in our ICU and with our transport monitors. This person has a normal sinus rhythm a little bit of first degree heart block & PACs and is probably moving around a bit.
S/he might be on the way to having a bit of a heart attack, especially since it was found outside of an ER, but they definately got there in time.
Not a great find since it is a normal ECG.
I wonder if it was folded up by the Finder, or by whoever lost it in the parking lot. If by the latter, perhaps s/he was missing this vital piece of information to show the doc upon a subsequent visit.
Aside from wondering about the folds, I got nothin.
Turn this over.
Bet it has some "notes to self or patient" on the back:
* Exercise REGULARLY
* Cut out the bad fats from diet
* Bacon can NOT be consumed at every meal
* Take one aspirin every day
* Butter does NOT need to be slathered on every food item.
* Remember family history & heed it.
* Take weird Uncle Fred OUT of will
pepper, agreed. boring, lame-o find. only made more boring by comments actually trying to explain what it is.
zzz.
How is this even remotely interesting, much less foundmagazine-worthy????????!?!?!??
Well *I* think it's cool. I've never seen one of these before except on TV. Maybe a Med/Nursing student could tell us what was wrong with this person.
I think it is cool. How many of these charts does one find?
Was this before or after the earthquake?
Interesting, we just started our cardiology unit today. Hopefully I'll know how to read this in a few weeks :)
I think Kate gave us a good analysis of the ECG strip. Thanks. Hope she/he listens to the doctor's advice.
I think that was his big bassoon thingy, Unworthy, that made all them boom ba da booms. Sophia's heart is doing fine. Still dealing with all that sexiness at her age. Life isnt fair, she should have to share some of that hotness.
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Apparently, she IS sharing her hotness. With Jonathan!
Pixi, I believe you get your ass kicked for
sayin' something like that, man.
I find this find a bit underwhelming, as well... isn't a bad find a sign of the apocolypse?
Begging your pardon, nerd in med school. Hope your studies don't cause any heartache. (har har)
Marcel, everyone thought you were already dead. But that's one quiet flatline!
Thank you Marcel for sharing your extraordinary talent with the world.
Given the start to the Wolverine's football season, I imagine there was a steady flow of ambulances ferrying elderly U of M alums to the emergency room. And...beating Penn State and a hapless Notre Dame is not a presciption for the loss to Appalachian State. Heisman hopes at U of M are DOA.
Does anyone remember those "BIO-RHYTHM" machines from the '70s? They had them in the grocery stores and the malls and for about 50 cents, you could have all of your biorhythms plotted by the machine, letting you know what the your best day of the month was for love, career, etc.
That's what this reminds of.
The printed word junkies among us should be grateful that this is a graph line and not a string of C++ or something even more cryptic.
ha ha ....
<yawn>
Blah-biddy-blah-blah-blah. BOOOOOOOORRRRRIIIIINNNNNNGGGGGGG.
That Is All
LOL! I'm cracking up over how many of those commenting deem themselves the "FoundMagazineJudges" as to whether something is "found-worthy" or not.
That's just funny to me.
If it's 'found' on the ground or in some odd place - it's for FOUND.
If it's 'taken' down or stolen - then, probably not.
However, I don't work for Found - so it's not up to me.
I just find it funny when the actual find is critized for being boring.
From now on people - ONLY lose things that are uber interesting okay? I mean - Come On ! LOL!
"There are no boring Finds. Only your boring comments."
GIVE ME SOMETHING TO WORK WITH
to the whiners, you must be an 'little theatre' actor. "there are no small parts, only small actors".
SALT!!!!!!!!!!! if i could write bigger than all caps,i would. Man oh man, i'm glad to see you back.
... i got nothin'
NOBODY ELSE DES DOES EITHER.
NOT FOUND
NOT PEPPER
NOT YOU
I MOTION TO THROW THIS ONE OUT. DOES THE BOARD AGREE?
You guys have no idea what you're talking about. This has nothing to do with cardiology. Some little Bahrainian kid was practicing his Arabic cursive and dropped this on his way into the hospital to steal some nitrous oxide tanks so he could get all fucked up before getting on the plane to go back home.
What happened?
NOTHING happened ASIDE FROM GROWING TIRED OF RELYING ON LIFELESS GOONS TRYING TO BE THE COMEDIANS THEY NEVER WERE FOR ENTERTAINMENT.
WHILE I UNDERSTAND DEVELOPING A PREOCCUPATION WITH MY MANLINESS AND OVERALL GREATNESS IS EXTRAORDINARILY DIFFICULT TO OVERCOME I AM GOING TO HAVE TO ASK YOU TO TAKE A STEP BACK
To SALT, I concur.
SALT, i, for one, cannot overcome my preoccupation with you.
I can’t get over mine about you (believe me I’ve tried) Mona Lisa. Now, don’t you feel special?
Don't you guys have jobs?
Well, your tirade of rage is an inappropriate response to my goony sense of humor. All I ever tried to do is be a friend to you and possibly make you laugh, and you know it. My preoccupation with you has nothing to do with your manliness, that’s just a springboard for a joke. You are responsible for bringing Unworthy to life and now you’ve just killed her.
I would like to thank you for inviting me to MySpace where, thanks to you, I have met some of the nicest friends I’ve ever had. (And to that bitch who’s going to ask “What friends? Have you met them?” I just have to say, yes, I have, and mind your own fucking business.)
Salt, if you feel like apologizing to me, I’ll consider listening. Otherwise, consider this my step back.
GET OVER YOUR EMOTIONAL FRENZY
Okay, the little drama was way more boring that the find.
I think this is the start of the michigan football team slowly dying.
Isn't people trying to be comedians just as tiresome as people constantly asserting their manliness?
thank god i got over checking this site instead of paying attention in classes... the finds have been fairly boring lately, but it's the chatter back and forth that is the most annoying... yet i am choosing now to participate and read some... i don't know what that says about me.
Leads II and III could be showing recent inferior wall heart damage (MI) but too difficult to be sure without other 9 ekg leads and blood tests
Good grief, what was all that about?
Unfortunately not me in Ms Loren's cleavage, but Peter Sellers as a very un-PC Indian doctor in The Millionairess (1960). I was quoting 'Goodness Gracious Me' which was their comedy hit record before all of you lot were born. Oh, except Midlife. And me, of course.
Peter Sellers really WAS having an affair with Ms Loren, by the way. O lucky man!
I love how no one has interpreted the EKG correctly...
althought not nither tear-jerking or har-larious, this find is noteworthy because of its rarity.
SuzyQ, I agree whole-heartedly with your response to Pixie's comment. and while we're throwing out random movie comments, I've got one more for her - hey Pixie "fuck you and your skipper wife!"
I think this came from the guy that was shot in front of my house this weekend...he didn't make it.
It's like a soap oprea here! Where is Salt and Unworthy! I want more!
Just finished watching Grey's Anatomy season Three and wanting more drama!
(officially have no life and am turning off the computer to read a book)
So, Cardiac ICU RN you say that nobody has interpreted these results correctly...but offer no interpretation of your own?
I think the patient thought he was having a heart attack, but it was just gas.
There was no intimacy in this patient's life, and no threat of intimacy either. That's why the rhythm is so even, and thus boring.
He/she never laughed either. Again, boring. Even, predictable. And on and on and on....
...and that's healthy?
god i'm glad my life isn't like that...
How come no one has responded to Keebler's hilarity?
"* Take weird Uncle Fred OUT of will"
haha! Priceless!
Wikipedia has everything you need to know about electrocardiograms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocardiogram).
Even though it was a boring find, I actually learned something today!
Ha! That was good. SALT,for once,I like you. Okay,over it now.
despite others' yawns over this find, I found it quite intriguing. A heartbeat is very personal. It's anonymous yet unique. Just because we're not learning about someone's life through their words doesn't mean that this find couldn't say anything about whoever lost their graph. Maybe the person was using it as a bookmark. Maybe he or she kept it in his/her wallet to show their friends in lieu of photos of kids or dogs. Maybe he or she was running out of the hospital without looking back and it slipped out of his or her hands. Maybe it belonged to a stalker who stole it from his or her stalkee? who was in the hospital...oh my. the possibilities are endless. use your imagination. i like this find.
I go to the U of M too!
...the one in MN though
Yes, Jonathan and I actually competed with Sellers (and Ponti, I suppose) for Ms. Loren's affection. Seeing us fighting with each other on the set one day, Sophia laughed and broke up the squabble by clasping us both to her chest, and since we were ten years old and hadn't attained our full height as yet, they left a huge impression on us.
Yeah, and remember that time we went round to her place and she coudn't decide which dress to wear so she'd taken it off, but she still had on the big hat and the long white gloves? And that black corset thing with the suspenders? And she just said 'Hello boys'... That was some afternoon, eh? Poor Peter Sellers never knew what he was missing.
Brit to American dictionary: suspenders = garters.
(Crisis gets some really weird visuals, sometimes.)
Is that how you guys got your dimples?
Well, Holly, they ain't no garters, and that's for sure:
http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/204127
Nightingale: yeh, one each! ;-) Nearly lost an eye though.
I still have my son's echocardiogram from when he was NICU... there is always a story behind these slips of paper, some good, some bad.
Dogs in Space,
Thank you for being the only other person who stood up to HIM that day. You were my hero on 9/24/07.
Both Leads I and II clearly show an ST segment elevation. Heart attack, anyone? I very much hope that person was okay.