"The surprise patient who has free air on their CXR"
— SURPRISE I HAVE AN ACUTE ABDOMEN AND NOW I’VE DECIDED TO CRASH. GOOD LUCK I MADE THIS DIFFICULT ON PURPOSE
medicalschool:
Retained surgical instrument on chest x-ray
Scary stuff
This reminds me of the time we discovered that a cardiologist left a guidewire in a catherterization patient when doing a CTA
"Watching TV in res lounge, surgeon comes in, reaches over and …takes the remote."