#medical blood

[dogydayz]

got my blood drawn two weeks ago and just this last Thursday. Theyre tryna figure out what fucking issues i may have and i may have an iron deficiency. Anyway, so I hate needles and i hate having blood drawn, all the shit freaks me out and i have to have very specific accommodations and the ladies were so nice and patient with me, which I was thankful for.

one of the things i do to help me, these last two times i mean, has been to look away and hold my phone in the free hand and focus on a youtube video. Both goddamn times that I did this, that I had my bloodwork done, where I was fuckin terrified of just the thought and not even necessarily what was happening, I watched a very specific video that someway, somehow, perfectly took my mind off of the moment.

"Jerma Laughing at Vehicle Accidents Compilation [Part 1]"

Both times, as I sit there making weird autism stress noises, struggling to not move my arm or body while one lady holds my arm firmly and the other does the needle stuff, whimpering like a fucking dog.... All I hear in the background are the sounds of videogame violence, metal crunching and crashing into other metal and concrete, the sounds of explosions, all followed by crazed laughter and confused, vocal chaos.

I have nothing more to say, I just wanted to share this wonderful experience with everyone.

[ruporas]

dragon meat, you, and me

[fanart-with-a-fruity-edge]

TW for blood

Stayed up way too late drawing my boys & am too tired to think of a caption rn, but wanted to post anyway ✌️

[virtualmish]

[fruitycircus]

get yourself a guy that's both werewolf and vampire coded 🦇🐺

[glgtg]

AAAAAAAAAI hate this stupid map aaaaammssmsmmshshahammm so I decided to draw this map with medic injured to make it 200% more stupid!!!

[trypo-p]

A little kiss to ease the pain of surgery!

( @sodascreen cursed me to draw men kissing!!! I couldn't control it!!!!!)

[kalmiaclown]

🌀oooooo you wanna listen to Your Surgeon Is Human, Too by Machinery of the Human Heart sooo baaad🌀

[utopicwork]

6 years ago I was told I was in too much pain to go through physical therapy, every doctor since has ignored this and now Im wheelchair bound (without the part where I actually have a wheelchair). No one will ever answer for this.

[Begin ID: "Pixel art of 6 nails in a column, each nail is progressively more dinged up and the last two have increasing levels of blood on them. There is text next to each nail, in order: HAVE YOU TRIED LOSING WEIGHT?" End ID]

[dewthorne]

Rutledge Asylum Alice: Madness Returns (2011) dev. Spicy Horse

[sapphickx]

open heart surgery IS a valid love language

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[gearbroth]

Comm work 💙

[bunnieswithknives]

AU based off Nature except I kept thinking about it too hard. Dales not a good dad, but its such an easy problem for him to throw money at, and what do you do when a part is damaged? Well, you replace it.

Basically an AU where Dev gets to experience medical trauma and realizes much sooner how much his dad doesn't love him

[awetfrog]

if yuo sleep in the stillwater every night u can unlock the secret gaysex ending

[reasonsforhope]

"When bloodstream infections set in, fast treatment is crucial — but it can take several days to identify the bacteria responsible. A new, rapid-diagnosis sepsis test could cut down on the wait, reducing testing time from as much as a few days to about 13 hours by cutting out a lengthy blood culturing step, researchers report July 24 [2024] in Nature.

“They are pushing the limits of rapid diagnostics for bloodstream infections,” says Pak Kin Wong, a biomedical engineer at Penn State who was not involved in the research. “They are driving toward a direction that will dramatically improve the clinical management of bloodstream infections and sepsis.”

Sepsis — an immune system overreaction to an infection — is a life-threatening condition that strikes nearly 2 million people per year in the United States, killing more than 250,000 (SN: 5/18/08). The condition can also progress to septic shock, a steep drop in blood pressure that damages the kidneys, lungs, liver and other organs. It can be caused by a broad range of different bacteria, making species identification key for personalized treatment of each patient.

In conventional sepsis testing, the blood collected from the patient must first go through a daylong blood culturing step to grow more bacteria for detection. The sample then goes through a second culture for purification before undergoing testing to find the best treatment. During the two to three days required for testing, patients are placed on broad-spectrum antibiotics — a blunt tool designed to stave off a mystery infection that’s better treated by targeted antibiotics after figuring out the specific bacteria causing the infection.

Nanoengineer Tae Hyun Kim and colleagues found a way around the initial 24-hour blood culture.

The workaround starts by injecting a blood sample with nanoparticles decorated with a peptide designed to bind to a wide range of blood-borne pathogens. Magnets then pull out the nanoparticles, and the bound pathogens come with them. Those bacteria are sent directly to the pure culture. Thanks to this binding and sorting process, the bacteria can grow faster without extraneous components in the sample, like blood cells and the previously given broad-spectrum antibiotics, says Kim, of Seoul National University in South Korea.

Cutting out the initial blood culturing step also relies on a new imaging algorithm, Kim says. To test bacteria’s susceptibility to antibiotics, both are placed in the same environment, and scientists observe if and how the antibiotics stunt the bacteria’s growth or kill them. The team’s image detection algorithm can detect subtler changes than the human eye can. So it can identify the species and antibiotic susceptibility with far fewer bacteria cells than the conventional method, thereby reducing the need for long culture times to produce larger colonies.

Though the new method shows promise, Wong says, any new test carries a risk of false negatives, missing bacteria that are actually present in the bloodstream. That in turn can lead to not treating an active infection, and “undertreatment of bloodstream infection can be fatal,” he says. “While the classical blood culture technique is extremely slow, it is very effective in avoiding false negatives.”

Following their laboratory-based experiments, Kim and colleagues tested their new method clinically, running it in parallel with conventional sepsis testing on 190 hospital patients with suspected infections. The testing obtained a 100 percent match on correct bacterial species identification, the team reports. Though more clinical tests are needed, these accuracy results are encouraging so far, Kim says.

The team is continuing to refine their design in hopes of developing a fully automated sepsis blood test that can quickly produce results, even when hospital laboratories are closed overnight. “We really wanted to commercialize this and really make it happen so that we could make impacts to the patients,” Kim says."

-via Science News, July 24, 2024

[mail-me-a-snail]

i love you to the bone

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